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 WRIGHTLove is the greatest virtue of the heart.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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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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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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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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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