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 WRIGHTThe 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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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 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.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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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 not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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.
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