The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
Space is the breath of art.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
If it sells, it's art.
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
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