"..……No really Italian building seems ill at ease in Italy. All are happily content with what ornament and colour they carry, as naturally as the rocks and trees garden slopes which are one with them.
Wherever the cypress rises, like the touch of a magician’s wand it resolves all into a composition harmonious and complete.
The secret of this ineffable charm would be sought in vain in the rarefied air of scholasticism or pedantic fine art. It lies close to the earth. Like a handful of the moist sweet earth itself, it is so simple that, to modern minds, trained in intellectual gymnastics, it would seem unrelated to great purposes. It is so close that almost universally it is overlooked".

Frank Lloyd Wright .

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