"The only thing wrong with architecture is architects."
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"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."
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"You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it."
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"If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it."
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"Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old."
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"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
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"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."
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"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."
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"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
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"Each material has its own message."
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"If it sells, it's art."
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"Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful."
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"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."
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"An idea is salvation by imagination."
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"The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more."
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"The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it."
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"At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze."
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"No stream rises higher than its source"
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"Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity"
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"It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar."
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