Frank Lloyd Wright: Quotes about art

Frank Lloyd Wright was American architect (1867-1959). Explore interesting quotes on art.
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“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”

Frank Lloyd Wright
Art , Soul

“I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Quote from an interview on the NBC television program, Wisdom- A Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright (1953)
Context: I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course.. but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.

Art , Business , Teachers , Science

“If it sells, it's art.”

Frank Lloyd Wright
Art

“I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“Night Is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun”
The Living City (1958)

Religion , Art , Science

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

Art , Communication

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

Art , Way

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

Religion , Art , Reality

“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.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

Soul , Religion , Art , Way

“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.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

Soul , Religion , Art

“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

A Testament (1957)

Democracy , Life , Religion , Art

“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)

Time , Art , Lie

“I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course.. but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Quote from an interview on the NBC television program, Wisdom- A Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright (1953)

Teachers , Science , Business , Art