Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe 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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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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Space is the breath of art.
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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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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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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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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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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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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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