79 quotes
Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?
Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight is to his steps. The term "genius" when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about.
A Testament (1957)
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.
A Testament (1957)
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)
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 Star (1959)
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)
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
The World's Best Thoughts on Life & Living (1981)
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)