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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

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.
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Beyond Education Man Praise Privacy
Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
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
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Material Nature
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Civilization Mom Soul
You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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Goodness Lie Simplicity Strength Truth Yourself
If it sells, it’s art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art One Liner
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Creation Friendship Ourselves Philosophy
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Greatness Heart Love Virtue
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Tool Yourself
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Business Tool
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Quality Simplicity True Value
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Lose World
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

People Philosophy
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Failure Nature Yourself
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Myself Nature Religious

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