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What does it mean?
Art requires space to exist and breathe, much like living things need air.
In plain terms
Space is essential for art to live.
What can you take from it?
Allow room in design for art to shine.

Where it applies

  • architecture
  • sculpture
  • composition

Putting it to work

  • leave negative space
  • avoid overcrowding
  • balance elements

Questions to consider

  • Where can you create space?
  • How does space affect emotion?

Another view

Some art relies on density rather than space.

More from Frank Lloyd Wright

  1. Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

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  2. Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity.

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  3. Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

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