“A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?” WayGivingWisdomAmericaBeautifulCulturePoliticsQualityEconomyBuildingSourceHigherCivilizationOfficeArchitectureStreamsLiberalismWhy NotBeautiful Life Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions of years ago. When their time came, they left this world and another race was born, the race of human beings.” WorldYearsHumansBeautifulLeftBornHuman BeingsRaceMillionsThis WorldBuddhismCivilizationYears AgoForgottenAncientIslandsSiteMauiAncient Civilizations Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.” ThinkingShouldEnoughBeautifulSpaceObjectsCivilizationFunctionSculpture Author:Barbara Chase-Riboud
“For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.” PeopleMenWorldTryingArtRealBeautifulDesireThreeCivilizationWesternCuriousArtisticRealmsDivinityDivisionEndeavorPullingThree ThingsWestern CivilizationStrandsBeautiful WorldMan Of GodBraids Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.” BeautifulCourageHonorCivilizationAimAngryTreasureWarriorCowardCowardiceBeautiful WomenHeartedStout Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.” MenImportantHomeLightBeautifulHoursWorkAttentionHalfEnvironmentAirMinesRevolutionCivilizationOfficeWorshipMachinesReactionsDawnShopsWakingFactoriesDevotedWorkplaceAdequateSurroundingsUglinessEvokeBreedingInfancyTranquillityElevatingWarehouseSqualorPlaces Of WorshipMachine Shop Author:B. C. Forbes
“It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.” MenMayMeanAbleBeautifulStrongRaceCenturyFineCivilizationSurvivalMen And WomenCompetitionGreedNobleCrueltyTriumphPreservesHonorableStrifeTwentieth CenturySurvival Of The FittestPremiumHonorable Man Author:W. E. B. Du Bois