Quotes from bookThe Fountainhead
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect who designs modernist buildings and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation. Roark embodies what Rand believed to be the ideal man, and his struggle reflects Rand's belief that individualism is superior to collectivism.
“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.”
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Source: The Romantic Manifesto (1969), Chapter 1 ("The Psycho-Epistemology of Art")
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“I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.”
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“The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.”
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“You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated”
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“Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.”
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“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”
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“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”
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“It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.”
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