I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTMan 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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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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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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’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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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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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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