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Architecture is intrinsic to Time, Place and Man. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
By being so far educated beyond his capacity is he unable to learn within himself from nature? Divorced as he is from her, who and what can now be his? Does the so-called free man of democracy merely exploit his sovereignity? View quote
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There is nothing so timid as a million dollars. View quote
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Exuberance to me early meant ecstacy of love, the poetic principle of life. View quote
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No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy. View quote
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Even though a disgrace, machine-made, ornament stayed and still thrives. View quote
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Both Art and Religion are on the way. Both must go hand in hand as ever before. Both together illuminating our sciences will constitute the soul of this civilization. View quote
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Votes are counted. Yes-but vision can neither be counted nor discounted. View quote
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The soul of any civilization on earth has ever been and still is Art and Religion, but neither has ever been found in commerce, in government of the police. View quote
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Reform only means more conformity. It is form first that is needed. View quote
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For this, if for no other reason, degeneration of creative ability in America has had ample support, and what nobility our society might still have is in danger of being submerged in overwhelming tides of rising conformity. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
As a people we remain comparative strangers to our own life in our own time in our own home: native culture waiting in vain on our door step. View quote
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Creation is not only rare but always hazardous. Always was. View quote
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Is false abstraction always the consequence of spiritual degeneration? View quote
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Almost all our so-called "modern" is not yet new. It is merely novel by imitation or indirection; or pretense by imported picture. View quote
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In every new expression of a fundamental Idea there will always be the substitutes, the imitations, dangling from it, as the soiled fringe from a good garment. View quote
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Thus the plausible expedient has become gospel and continues to be generally foisted upon those who seek better things; the conformities proclaimed by authority, however specious, temporarily mistaken for Godhead. View quote
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I then believed critics were by nature no less confused than confusing. View quote
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See the last chapter in Genesis where Cain, the murderer of his brother, went forth with his sons to found the city. The City is still murdering his brother. View quote
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Between the radical and the conformist lies all the difference between a lithe tendon and a length of gas-pipe. View quote
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Servility increases-already a seemingly unguarded danger to democracy not only in art and architecture and religion but in all phases of life. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
This drift toward quantity instead of quality is largely distortion. Conformity is always too convenient? Quality means individuality, is therefore difficult. But unless we go deeper now, quantity at expense to quality will be our national tragedy-the rise of mediocrity into high places. View quote
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Might not the spirit of creative art, desperately needed by man, lie in the proper use of the radical new technologies of our times, and so arise? View quote
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What means more to the life of the individual in our own place in Time than this study of the nature of human nature, the search to discover pertinent traces of hidden impulses of life, to form continually new abstractions uplifting the life he lives? View quote
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If the abstraction is truly made well above the animal nature in man-his gregarious nature-it will keep the ancient rituals of his higher nature as long as possible. Human abstractions if true usually become ritual. View quote
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