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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

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Death Food Wall
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Human Material Value
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Himself Man Nature Philosophy Worth
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Greatness Opportunity
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Grow Up Old Youth
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Education Perfection Student
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Animal Desire Home Regard
The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Help Life Live People Reason Understand World
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
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Body God Nature See
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Business Tool
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Light Myself
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Eyes Technology
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Atheist Creation God Thinking
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Life Luxury Necessary Willing
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

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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