"Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly."
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"I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion."
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"All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account"
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"Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?"
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"I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary."
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"I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order."
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"On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension."
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"So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal."
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"The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site."
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"Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life"
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"If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city."
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"It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated."
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"The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself."
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"Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste."
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"Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination."
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"Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?"
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