A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture...

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture...

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies...

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light,...

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light,...

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in...

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in...

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express...

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express...

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

The truth is more important than the facts.

The truth is more important than the facts.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...