Quote #36

Classicism is a mask and does not reflect transition. How can such a static expression allow interpretation of human life as we know it? A fire house should not resemble a French Chateau, a bank a Greek temple and a university a Gothic Cathedral. All of the '-isms' are imposition on life itself, by way of previous education.

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  1. Chewing gum for the eyes.
  2. Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
  3. Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
  4. Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
  5. Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
  6. Don't eat it. It will kill you before your time. Avoid it.
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  8. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. (1939)

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