Frank Lloyd Wright: News

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

“Man either learns to usefor humanity his new facilities or he perishes by them.”

“The spiritual dignity of this new humane life for mankind is the Spirit of Man himself sacrosanct.”

“Only Art and Religion can bring this new vision as reality to a nation.”

“Spirit is man's new power if he is to be truly mighty in his civilization.”

“Almost all our so-called "modern" is not yet new. It is merely novel by imitation or indirection; or pretense by imported picture.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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?”

“Everywhere these inventions of science by ignorant misuse of a new technique were wiping out the artist.”