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"A Japanese artist's power of geometrical analysis seems little short of miraculous. An essential geometry he sees in everything, only, perhaps, to let it vanish in mystery for the beholder of his finished work... By this grasp of geometric form and sense of its symbol-value, he has the secret of getting to the hidden core of reality." 
  
Frank Lloyd Wright himself was a great practitioner of reaching for the "hidden core of reality" in creating his works. In all things, not in architecture alone, his intellect moved instinctively toward an invisible world of beauty and he perceived the links between that world and the one outside our window.s While discussing Japanese artists, in the preface, he expressed what I would consider the essence of his own experience, distilled into his own approach to art. He wrote:

"A flower is beautiful, we say -- but why?