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 WRIGHTBureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Each material has its own message.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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