Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

“On tortured knees I have tried to learn some of these lessons from the Japanese. I have painfully participated in this "idealized" making of a cup of tea following a Japanese formal dinner, trying to get at some of these secrets if secrets they are. I confess that I have been eventually bored to extinction by the repetition of it all and soon I would avoid the ordeal when I could see an invitation coming. And I freely admit, such discipline is not for us. It is far too severe. Yes, far too severe! We are not yet civilised enough to go that far in idealizing anything in life, not to mention our environment. Or be capable of making our living into ceremonial of any kind except occasionally : for the moment. Our joys and sorrows come and go otherwise.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography