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.
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.
When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.
The greatest story commandment is: Make me care.
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