"Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on."
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"I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home."
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"If all the thought which had been expended on the construction of engines of agony and death - the modes of aggression and defence, the raising of armies, and the acquirement of those arts of tyranny and falsehood without which mixed multitudes could neither be led nor governed - had been employed to promote the true welfare and extend the real empire of man, how different would have been the present situation of human society!"
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"Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? When young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,-- In thy place--ah! well-a-day! We find the thing we fled--To-day!"
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"The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves."
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"I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?"
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"Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!"
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"There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman."
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"Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form."
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"Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter."
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"I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not."
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"Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea."
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"There are some disabling myths about what art is, how to do it, what is good art, and what art is for, that have gagged generations, depriving them of significant and natural means of expression. This is a terrible loss and an unnecessary one."
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"An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred."
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"I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face."
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"The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts."
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"Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough."
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"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."
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"Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart."
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"I graduated in June 1948 and then went in the fall to the art school. I stayed with my cousins on Seventeenth Street in the beginning, and later had my own apartment very near there and was able to walk to the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue. The school had a faculty of local artists - Jeanette and Robert Blair, James Vullo who were well known in the area. It was a school that I think thrived on returning GIs, as many schools did at that time. It was a very informal program - but it was professional."
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