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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Beyond Education Man Praise Privacy
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Human Material Value
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Life Luxury Necessary Willing
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Greatness Myself Thinking World
Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret
Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Age Lose Perspective Quality Youth
Each material has its own message.
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Material One Liner Worth
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Government Result
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Life Man Philosophy
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Human Man Material Worth
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Limitation Praise
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
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
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
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Heart Love Virtue
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Light Myself

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