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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

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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Each Other Material Nature Oneself Philosophy Purpose
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Belief Inspirational
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Children 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 Youth
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Appearance Easy Growth Nature
Less is more only when more is too much.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Deep Minimalism One Liner Philosophy
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Art Food Philosophy
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Gratitude Man Ourselves Philosophy
The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Fact Greatness Room
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Civilization Mom Soul
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Goodness Hurt
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Age Drink Fool Man
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Change Choice Honesty Life Myself
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Danger Fool Hands Myself Start Weapon

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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