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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Knowledge Philosophy True Understand
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Inspirational Nature
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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Himself Man Nature Philosophy Worth
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Advice Mistake Plant
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
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
Nature is my manifestation of God.
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God Nature Religious Spiritual
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Greatness Myself Nature Religious
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 believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Believe God Myself Nature
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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Change Choice Honesty Life Myself
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Grow Up Old Yourself Youth
The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Beautiful Expression Human Intellectual Life Live Strength Technology
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Myself People
The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Feeling Philosophy Quality
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Lose World

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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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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