Frank Lloyd Wright citáty

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„Matkou umění je architektura. Bez vlastní architektury naše civilizace nemá duši.“

„Než Louis Sullivan ukázal cestu, vysokým budovám chyběla jednota. Byly postaveny ve vrstvách jako velký svatební dort. Všichni bojovali proti výšce místo aby ji důstojně a čestně přijali.“

„Vždy se stane to, v co opravdu věříte, a víra v danou věc způsobí, že se stane.“

„Respekt by si měl člověk zasloužit svými činy, a ne ho získávat léty.“

“Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.”

“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.”

“The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive”

“I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.”

“The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears — as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.”

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”

“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”

“A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”

“New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.”

“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

“The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.”

“Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?”

“New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.”

“If you’re going to have centralization, why not have it!”

“To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.”

“Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.”

“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”

“Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.”

“I never had much respect for the collector's mind.”

“Again: I found repeatedly confirmed that the inferior mind not only learns by comparison, but loosely confers its superlatives, while the superior mind which learns by analysis refrains from superlatives.”

“Resemblances are mistaken for influences.”

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

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

“... the huge business of education is not on speaking terms with culture and such culture as we now have is not on speaking terms with reality.”

“No! is always easier to say than Yes.”

“As melody is in music ornament is in architecture revelation of the poetic-principle, with character and significance.”

“Intellectual is not necessarily intelligent either.”

“Poetic is prophetic insight.”

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