"Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art."
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"In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom."
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"Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?"
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"The art is long, life is short"
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"Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest."
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"The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner."
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"We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality."
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"My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground."
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"In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered."
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"Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them."
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"I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts."
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"Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death."
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"Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end."
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"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through."
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"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."
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"I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous."
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"I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?"
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"No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins."
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"I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey."
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"I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts."
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