Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The timelessness of art is its capacity to represent the transformation of endless becoming into being. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconsciousrepression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
When cities were first founded, an old Egyptian scribe tells us, the mission of the founder was to 'put gods in their shrines.' The… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
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