"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
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"Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind."
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"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."
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"The space within becomes the reality of the building."
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"If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!"
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"Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it."
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"If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor."
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"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
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"A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality."
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"Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme."
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"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
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"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."
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"I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up."
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"How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside."
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"I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church."
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"An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert."
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"All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know."
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"'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"Less is only more where more is no good."
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"As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means."
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