Frank Lloyd Wright citations

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“Success was misunderstood as essential to progress. Really success was worse than failure.”

“Different were the prophets of the human soul.”

“But soon this saving virtue appeared to me in our disgraceful dilemma: Realization that any true cultural significance our American free society could know lay in the proper use of the machine as a tool and used only as a tool.”

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

“To survive, our American art was cheating itself of life.”

“So the poet in the engineer and the engineer in the poet and both in the architect may be seen here working together, lifelong.”

“Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight is to his steps. The term "genius" when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about.”

“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.”