Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a German sculptor of expressionistic style. This was perhaps the only example, Lehmbruck, between my sixteenth to nineteenth years in which I saw a possibility for art to be principally of interest to innovate some things, instead of writing a very boring, naturalistic repetition of what is already done by nature.

You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I object to the whole reduction idea…if my work is reductionist it’s because it doesn’t have the elements that people thought should be there. But it has other elements I like.

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.

I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age find its own technique.