Asked for his occupation in a court of law, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867?1959) replied ?The world?s greatest architect?. His wife remonstrated with him. ?I had no choice, Olgivanna?, he told her, ?I was under oath.?

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Asked for his occupation in a court of law, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867?1959) replied ?The world?s greatest architect?. His wife remonstrated with him. ?I had no choice, Olgivanna?, he told her, ?I was under oath.?The cocksure Wright was a master of the one-line quip. He told a client who phoned to complain of rain leaking from the roof of her new house onto the dining table where she was sitting to ?move the chair?. Thinking of Mies, he said, ?Less is only more where more is no good?. On seeing his tall assistant, William Wesley Peters, inside one of his latest and rather low-ceilinged houses, he barked, ?Sit down, Wes, you?re ruining the scale of my architecture?. Of himself, this very original American architect bragged, ?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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