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Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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  1. If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel gi…
  2. It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth. ... In …
  3. 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 h…
  4. So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
  5. The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
  6. I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
  7. Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
  8. Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.

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  • art
  • space
  • clutter
  • decor
  • minimalism
  • walls

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