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 WRIGHTEventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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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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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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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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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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One war only breeds another.
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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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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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