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“Architecture is intrinsic to Time, Place and Man.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Time
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“Science is inventive but creative never.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Science
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“Spirit is man's new power if he is to be truly mighty in his civilization.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

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“Only Art and Religion can bring this new vision as reality to a nation.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Religion , Art , Reality
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“The spiritual dignity of this new humane life for mankind is the Spirit of Man himself sacrosanct.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Life
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“Man either learns to usefor humanity his new facilities or he perishes by them.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Learning
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“The petty bias of personal taste can no longer hide either excrescence or spiritual poverty in the name of style.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Personality
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“Poetic is prophetic insight.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

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“Intellectual is not necessarily intelligent either.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Intelligence
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“As melody is in music ornament is in architecture revelation of the poetic-principle, with character and significance.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Music
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“No! is always easier to say than Yes.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

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“... the huge business of education is not on speaking terms with culture and such culture as we now have is not on speaking terms with reality.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Reality , Business , Education
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“Genuine expressions as essence of the great art itself cannot be taught or imitated. Nor can they in any way be forced.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Art , Way
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“Great art has always, at first, been controversial. Now that our means of communication have multiplied, how much more so today?”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Art , Communication
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“Resemblances are mistaken for influences.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

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“Again: I found repeatedly confirmed that the inferior mind not only learns by comparison, but loosely confers its superlatives, while the superior mind which learns by analysis refrains from superlatives.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Learning
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“I never had much respect for the collector's mind.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

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“An Emperor is subject to no one but God and Justice.”

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122–1190) Holy Roman Emperor (1122-1190)

From Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (1591-1645), Apophthegmata (1626), bk. I. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 18th ed. (2012).

God , Justice
Sergei Korolev photo

“Why congratulate me? We are miners, no one knows our names, we work underground.”

Sergei Korolev (1906–1966) Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer

Response when congratulated with the fifth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight
"The Soviet space engineer, Sergey Korolev, who inspires Elon Musk" in ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/International/soviet-space-engineer-sergey-korolev-inspires-elon-musk/story?id=80602926 (17 October 2021)

Sergei Korolev photo

“Anyone can build complicated. Our actions are determined by simplicity.”

Sergei Korolev (1906–1966) Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer

SOS im All. Pannen, Probleme und Katastrophen der bemannten Raumfahrt [SOS in Space. Breakdowns, Problems and Disasters in Manned Spaceflight], pg. 163 (2000)