May you all have many rich, active years before you and leave, as you depart from this world, your mark on the sands of time!"Guy Francon ended with a flourish, raising his right arm in a sweeping salute informal, but with an air, that gay, swaggering air which Guy Francon could always permit himself.
May you all serve faithfully, neither as slaves to the past nor as those parvenus who preach originality for its own sake, which attitude is only ignorant vanity. Truth - to the traditions of our Art, Love - for our fellow men whom we are to serve, Beauty - ah, Beauty is a compelling goddess to all artists, be it in the shape of a lovely woman or a building.Hm.Yes.In conclusion, I should like to say to you, who are about to embark upon your careers in architecture, that you are now the custodians of a sacred heritage.Hm.Yes.So, go forth into the world, armed with the three eternal enti - armed with courage and vision, loyal to the standards this great school has represented for many years. In a broader sense, these are but part of the three eternal entities: Truth, Love and Beauty. I don't take the message of the Fountainhead literally because it wasn't for practical application in reality Instead it was trying to communicate the fundamental idea that you are an individual and you have the right to choose how to live your life.".Architecture, my friends, is a great art based on two cosmic principles: Beauty and Utility. I learned the meaning of integrity in the Fountainhead, which I define as the ability to stick to your own ideas. He would rather break rocks, than to break his own integrity. He had to close down and went on to work in a quarry. At one point he went bankrupt because his client wanted to change his design, he protested and the deal fell through. Roark challenges the notion that 'the customer is always right' and at one point he says: "I don't create buildings to have clients, I have clients to create buildings".Įverything Roark did was in pursuit of his own happiness, and he stopped at nothing not even at the threat of starvation to attain it. Time and time again he clashes with his clients who complains about his style. Roark wanted to be original, he wanted to create buildings the way he sees it. The novel is set in the 1920's and every architect wanted to emulate architecture from different eras. He had one principle which was to live his life the way he wants it.
The main character was Howard Roark who was an architect.
As an artist I enjoyed it more than any novel I've ever read.
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