Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
Interpretation
Embracing and expressing one's unique self is the highest achievement in life.
In this quote, Frank Lloyd Wright emphasizes the importance of individuality as the ultimate achievement for a person. He suggests that the essence of a person's uniqueness is a sacred quality and that true greatness stems from the realization and expression of one's individual identity, making each person a unique work of art.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and self-acceptance.
Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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.
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.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.
I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works
This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.
One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.
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