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. View quote
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I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it. View quote
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The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive. View quote
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Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them. View quote
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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? View quote
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I never had much respect for the collector's mind. View quote
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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. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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No! is always easier to say than Yes. View quote
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As melody is in music ornament is in architecture revelation of the poetic-principle, with character and significance. View quote
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Intellectual is not necessarily intelligent either. View quote
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Poetic is prophetic insight. View quote
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The petty bias of personal taste can no longer hide either excrescence or spiritual poverty in the name of style. View quote
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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. View quote
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Only Art and Religion can bring this new vision as reality to a nation. View quote
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Spirit is man's new power if he is to be truly mighty in his civilization. View quote
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Science is inventive but creative never. View quote
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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Occupation: American Architect
Born: June 8, 1867
Died: April 9, 1959
Quotes count: 152
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