Frank Lloyd Wright - Teaching youth: Comparison vs. Discovery

“Everyone in creative work is subject to persecution by odious comparison. …Comparisons dog the footsteps of all creation wherever the poetic principle is involved, because the inferior mind learns only by comparisons; comparisons, usually unequivocal, made by selfish interests each for the other.

But the superior mind learns by analyses: the study of nature.

Many of our young … are eager, groping; … but they are fed prejudicial comparisons instead of the results of patient intelligent analyses or performance based upon nature… … persistent analyses based upon actual experience is so rare…” - Frank Lloyd Wright

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First published: 13 Sept. 2010