Friday, February 26, 2010

Quotes {FLW}

Last week in History II, we discussed Frank Lloyd Wright. His Wikipedia page is here. Below are some of his famous quotes.

"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
"Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind."
"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."
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

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