New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
- Less is only more where more is no good.
- The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
- A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- 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.
- I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
- An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Best Quotes
- Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
- Art and works of art do not make an artist sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
- Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
- I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
- A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
- Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
- God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
- I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
- I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.
- It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.