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Your Quotes for 8 June 2006 - Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was born at Richland Center, Wisconsin on this day in 1867. He attended the University of Wisconsin for two years while apprenticed to a local builder, then left to work with several Chicago architects until 1893 when he started his own firm. His contributions to residential architecture include such things as the living room, open floor plans, and carports. In almost 75 years he designed over 500 buildings that were completed and trained hundreds of architects at his Taliesen school.

A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the business man it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Less is only more where more is no good.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
     - All from Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869 - 1959

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