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Less is more only when more is too much.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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Feeling Philosophy Quality
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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Difference Fools Myself See
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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Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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People Philosophy
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Art Civilization Mom Soul
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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Appearance Easy Growth Nature
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Eyes Technology
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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Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Ideas Imagination
No 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.
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Happiness Home Live Nature Togetherness
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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Beyond Education Man Praise Privacy
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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Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Greatness Heart Love Virtue
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Art Food Philosophy
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Design Myself People
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Choice Honesty Myself

Less is more only when more is too much.

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