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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.
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In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.
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If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for…
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Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the…
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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than…
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Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor...…
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One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have…
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