The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTPhilip 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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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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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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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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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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Freedom lies within.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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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!
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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