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“As a people we remain comparative strangers to our own life in our own time in our own home: native culture waiting in vain on our door step.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“For this, if for no other reason, degeneration of creative ability in America has had ample support, and what nobility our society might still have is in danger of being submerged in overwhelming tides of rising conformity.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“Reform only means more conformity. It is form first that is needed.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“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 (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“Votes are counted. Yes—but vision can neither be counted nor discounted.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“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 (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“Even though a disgrace, machine-made, ornament stayed and still thrives.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“Exuberance to me early meant ecstacy of love, the poetic principle of life.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“Nature's own inexhaustible fertility is manifest exuberance, and never less than the elemental poetry of all her structure.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“There is nothing so timid as a million dollars.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“By being so far educated beyond his capacity is he unable to learn within himself from nature? Divorced as he is from her, who and what can now be his? Does the so-called free man of democracy merely exploit his sovereignity?”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“Architecture is intrinsic to Time, Place and Man.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

“Science is inventive but creative never.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

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

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

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

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

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

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

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

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

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

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)