"I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty."
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"Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity."
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""I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?""
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"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet."
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"Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters."
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"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
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"True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented"
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"Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred."
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"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
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"Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?"
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"Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see."
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"Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way."
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"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind."
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"Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part."
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"The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy."
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"Imitate nothing except principle."
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"Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves."
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"Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm."
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"Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy"
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