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“New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

The Living City (1958)

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

On New York and Pittsburgh, The New York Times (27 November 1955)

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“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.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“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?”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“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?”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)