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Why can there not be a new art founded on the only principle which can produce great art—the principle that art is the interpretation or extraction of the essence of beauty in nature, and all else is secondary?

— Ernest Flagg Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

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A master in art need not go into the highways and byways for affects; he knows the straight course and follows it.

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Simplicity and Dignity are so nearly related that they may be considered together.

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The system of building, described in this work, is intended for repetition.

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