Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Interpretation
What this quote means
An architect should have the vision to foresee the future impacts of their designs.
This quote emphasizes the importance of foresight in architecture and design. Frank Lloyd Wright argues that true architects possess the ability to envision the long-term consequences and benefits of their work, indicating that a lack of this vision diminishes their role and value in the architectural field.
Themes
ArchitectureForesightVisionDesignFuture
In practice
Example use cases
During a lecture on sustainable architecture, this quote can illustrate the significance of considering long-term ecological impacts.
More from Frank Lloyd Wright
All quotes βHarvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Similar quotes
Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?
LaoziRead
You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
XenophonRead
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre CharronRead
And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas HuxleyRead
A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias._x000D_ The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.
ConfuciusRead
The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.
John UpdikeRead