One war only breeds another.
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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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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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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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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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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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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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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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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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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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