Art, not unlike raising children, ... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you. |
everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.... |
heightened perception is the goal: becoming more aware of how you see, not just what you see. |
It seems to me extremely dubious to be constructing buildings based on drawings by Wright as if these are actually Wright's works. |
The consolation of art comes in many forms, ... For some it is making, for others it is having. |
Wright was notoriously ingenious about changing his designs in the process, and these drawings cannot be said to represent anything but one stage in the concept of a design by Wright. So while it's an interesting exercise, it also comes perilously close to kitsch, and even to misrepresenting Wright's genius. |