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 WRIGHTThe best friend of earth of man is the tree.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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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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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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