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 WRIGHTYou can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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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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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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