Frank Lloyd Wright quotes - page 4

Mechanization best serves mediocrity. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
Frank Lloyd Wright
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.
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Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.
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Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
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The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive.
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Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
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Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?
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I never had much respect for the collector's mind.
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Again: I found repeatedly confirmed that the inferior mind not only learns by comparison, but loosely confers its superlatives, while the superior mind which learns by analysis refrains from superlatives. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Resemblances are mistaken for influences.
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Great art has always, at first, been controversial. Now that our means of communication have multiplied, how much more so today?
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Genuine expressions as essence of the great art itself cannot be taught or imitated. Nor can they in any way be forced.
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... the huge business of education is not on speaking terms with culture and such culture as we now have is not on speaking terms with reality.
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No! is always easier to say than Yes.
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As melody is in music ornament is in architecture revelation of the poetic-principle, with character and significance.
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Intellectual is not necessarily intelligent either.
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Poetic is prophetic insight.
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The petty bias of personal taste can no longer hide either excrescence or spiritual poverty in the name of style.
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Man either learns to usefor humanity his new facilities or he perishes by them. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
The spiritual dignity of this new humane life for mankind is the Spirit of Man himself sacrosanct.
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Only Art and Religion can bring this new vision as reality to a nation.
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Spirit is man's new power if he is to be truly mighty in his civilization.
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Science is inventive but creative never.
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