“Wise and Clear in Their Purpose”

March 19th, 2010

From a cut section of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead:

After the explosion, his voice, his hands moving slowly as he spoke, like planes smoothing unseen walls, raised broad, clean streets and houses in the likeness of what those within should be and would be made to become by these houses: straight and simple and honest, wise and clear in their purpose, copying nothing, following nothing but the needs of those living within–and let the needs of no one living be those of his neighbor! To give them, Cameron was saying, what they want, but first to teach them to want–to want with their own eyes, their own brains, their own hearts. To teach them to dream–then give the dream to them in steel and mortar, and let them follow it with dreams in muscle and blood.

That’s what all good creators do: have a vision that they believe in, and then make it reality for the rest of us. Their vision, coherent and complete, and their execution, are an inspiration for everyone.