"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination"
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"So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials."
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"I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood."
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"I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it."
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"Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life."
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"When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear"
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"Less is more only when more is too much."
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"I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."
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"Imitation is always insult--not flattery."
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"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."
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"Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry."
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"San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful."
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"I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture."
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"Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust."
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"The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy."
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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
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"What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco."
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"I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one."
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"Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge"
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"Television is bubble-gum for the mind."
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