Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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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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Space is the breath of art.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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