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| Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. Freedom is from within.I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. I believe totally in a capitalist system; I only wish that someone would try it. I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anarchronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. Space is the breath of art. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect. The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. The truth is more important than the facts. There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally. Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. |
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