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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 Wright

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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Action Best Move On Regard Yourself
Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Nature Peace Storm
An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Beautiful Life Live Myself Philosophy
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Greatness Myself Nature Religious
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Change Choice Honesty Life Myself
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Material Nature
The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Gratitude Man Ourselves Philosophy
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Business Tool
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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Atheist Creation God Thinking
The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Fact Greatness Room
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Beautiful Light Myself
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Material People Rich
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Country Fall

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.

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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.

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