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"I wouldn't mind seeing opera die." Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Frank Lloyd Wright was a renowned architect. He was a major figure in the evolution of design and theory. These are some of his famous quotes.
| | An idea is salvation by imagination. |
| | Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. |
| | Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. |
| | Freedom is from within. |
| | Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. |
| | Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. |
| | I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature". Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. |
| | I believe totally in a capitalist system, I only wish that someone would try it. |
| | I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. |
| | I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. |
| | If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. |
| | Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. |
| | Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. |
| | Space is the breath of art. |
| | The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. |
| | The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization. |
| | The space within becomes the reality of the building. |
| | The truth is more important than the facts. |
| | There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. |
| | Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. |
| | Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them. |
| | The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. |
| | I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. |
| | Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see. |
| | To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. |
| | All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. |
| | A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. |
| | An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site. |
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