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 WRIGHTRegard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work 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 best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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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.
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