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Less is more only when more is too much.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Limitation Praise
Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Nature Peace Storm
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Business Tool
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Greatness Liberty Tolerance
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
If it sells, it’s art.
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Art One Liner
The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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Beautiful Help Life Live People Reason Understand World
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
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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Creation Friendship Ourselves 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
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
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Believe God Myself Nature
Space is the breath of art.
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Art Breathe Space
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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Art Knowledge Philosophy True Understand
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

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