Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTNature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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Space is the breath of art.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Life is truth.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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