“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”
More from Frank Lloyd Wright on Art
“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.”
“Space is the breath of art.”
“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
Others on Art
Picasso
18 quotes“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Vincent van Gogh
13 quotes“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
John Keats
10 quotes“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”
Beethoven
8 quotes“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.”
Ansel Adams
7 quotes“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.”
Marshall McLuhan
7 quotes“Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance.”
Ezra Pound
7 quotes“Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.”