A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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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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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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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
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""Think simple"" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
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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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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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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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