The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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.
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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Space is the breath of art.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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