Frank Lloyd Wright: Trending quotes (page 3)

“The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.”

“Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?”

“New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.”

“If you’re going to have centralization, why not have it!”

“To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.”

“Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.”

“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”

“Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.”

“I never had much respect for the collector's mind.”

“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.”

“Resemblances are mistaken for influences.”

“Great art has always, at first, been controversial. Now that our means of communication have multiplied, how much more so today?”

“Genuine expressions as essence of the great art itself cannot be taught or imitated. Nor can they in any way be forced.”

“... 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.”

“No! is always easier to say than Yes.”

“As melody is in music ornament is in architecture revelation of the poetic-principle, with character and significance.”

“Intellectual is not necessarily intelligent either.”

“Poetic is prophetic insight.”

“The petty bias of personal taste can no longer hide either excrescence or spiritual poverty in the name of style.”