“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
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“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
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“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”
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“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
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“An idea is salvation by imagination”
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“The truth is more important than the facts.”
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“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.”
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“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
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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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“Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.”
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“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
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“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
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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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“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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“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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“The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.”
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“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”
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“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
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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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“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
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“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
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