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"The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."

"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began."

"Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana."

"A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."

"I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that."

"Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures."
Explore more quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

"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."

""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"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."

"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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