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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Nov 07, 2020
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Common Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
- Chicken
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Drafting
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- Nov 07, 2020
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
- Memorial
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is more important than the facts.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is from within.
- Feature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
An idea is salvation by imagination.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
- Mediocrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
- Nov 07, 2020
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
- Nov 07, 2020
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
- Breath
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- Nov 07, 2020
Space is the breath of art.
- Expedient
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- Nov 07, 2020