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 WRIGHTLack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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Space is the breath of art.
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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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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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