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Quotes from A Testament — Frank Lloyd Wright

1867–1959 United States

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No! is always easier to say than Yes.

A Testament (1957)

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?

A Testament (1957)

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?

A Testament (1957)

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.

A Testament (1957)

... the huge business of education is not on speaking terms with culture and such culture as we now have is not on speaking terms with reality.

A Testament (1957)

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.

A Testament (1957)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frank Lloyd Wright (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.