"If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."
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"Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation"
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"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order."
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"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
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"Mechanization best serves mediocrity."
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"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."
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"The truth is more important than the facts."
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"Space is the breath of art."
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"Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth"
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"I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it."
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"Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials."
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"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
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"A building is not just a place to be but a way to be."
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"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
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"Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit."
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"The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home."
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"More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building."
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"I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking."
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"The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth."
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"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
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