Frank Lloyd Wright Zitate

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

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

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

“Science is inventive but creative never.”

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

“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?”

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

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

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

“No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Creation is not only rare but always hazardous. Always was.”

“Is false abstraction always the consequence of spiritual degeneration?”

“Almost all our so-called "modern" is not yet new. It is merely novel by imitation or indirection; or pretense by imported picture.”

“In every new expression of a fundamental Idea there will always be the substitutes, the imitations, dangling from it, as the soiled fringe from a good garment.”

“Thus the plausible expedient has become gospel and continues to be generally foisted upon those who seek better things; the conformities proclaimed by authority, however specious, temporarily mistaken for Godhead.”

“I then believed critics were by nature no less confused than confusing.”

“See the last chapter in Genesis where Cain, the murderer of his brother, went forth with his sons to found the city. The City is still murdering his brother.”

“Between the radical and the conformist lies all the difference between a lithe tendon and a length of gas-pipe.”

“Servility increases—already a seemingly unguarded danger to democracy not only in art and architecture and religion but in all phases of life.”

“This drift toward quantity instead of quality is largely distortion. Conformity is always too convenient? Quality means individuality, is therefore difficult. But unless we go deeper now, quantity at expense to quality will be our national tragedy—the rise of mediocrity into high places.”

“Might not the spirit of creative art, desperately needed by man, lie in the proper use of the radical new technologies of our times, and so arise?”

“What means more to the life of the individual in our own place in Time than this study of the nature of human nature, the search to discover pertinent traces of hidden impulses of life, to form continually new abstractions uplifting the life he lives?”