There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look...

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look...

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

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

Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of...

Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of...

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from...

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from...

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great...

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great...

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the...

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the...

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll [Le Corbusier] go write four books about...

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll [Le Corbusier] go write four books about...

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.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often...

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often...

An idea is salvation by imagination.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great,...

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great,...