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Great art has always, at first, been controversial. Now that our means of communication have multiplied, how much more so today?
A Testament (1957)
Creation is not only rare but always hazardous. Always was.
A Testament (1957)
I then believed critics were by nature no less confused than confusing.
A Testament (1957)
To survive, our American art was cheating itself of life.
A Testament (1957)
Different were the prophets of the human soul.
A Testament (1957)
Genuine expressions as essence of the great art itself cannot be taught or imitated. Nor can they in any way be forced.
A Testament (1957)
Votes are counted. Yes—but vision can neither be counted nor discounted.
A Testament (1957)
Almost all our so-called "modern" is not yet new. It is merely novel by imitation or indirection; or pretense by imported picture.
A Testament (1957)
Reform only means more conformity. It is form first that is needed.
A Testament (1957)
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.
A Testament (1957)
Everywhere these inventions of science by ignorant misuse of a new technique were wiping out the artist.
A Testament (1957)
Even though a disgrace, machine-made, ornament stayed and still thrives.
A Testament (1957)
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.
A Testament (1957)
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?
A Testament (1957)
Architecture is intrinsic to Time, Place and Man.
A Testament (1957)
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.
A Testament (1957)
If the abstraction is truly made well above the animal nature in man—his gregarious nature—it will keep the ancient rituals of his higher nature as long as possible. Human abstractions if true usually become ritual.
A Testament (1957)
So the poet in the engineer and the engineer in the poet and both in the architect may be seen here working together, lifelong.
A Testament (1957)
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.
A Testament (1957)
Success was misunderstood as essential to progress. Really success was worse than failure.
A Testament (1957)