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 WRIGHTAn expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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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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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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