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 WRIGHTNo house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Space is the breath of art.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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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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