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 WRIGHTBuilding becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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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.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Life is truth.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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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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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 best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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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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