The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTPhilip 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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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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