The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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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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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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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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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 mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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