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Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.
People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
The zoo cannot but disappoint.
Art never lies, I believe.
Work first, and then rest.
There is no wealth but life.
When art wins, everyone wins.
To be naked is to be oneself.
The last act crowns the play.
Art is a self-replicating force.
All publicity works upon anxiety.
See! This our fathers did for us.
All art is infested by other art.
Energy and art go where they will.
I'm retiring because my time is up.
Architecture is the work of nations
Always stand by form against force.
No art goes unmediated by other art.
All creation is in the art of seeing.
The best thing in life aren't things.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
He who is not actively kind is cruel!
A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
Morality does not depend on religion.
Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.
Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
Comfort came in with the middle classes.
Perspective is not a science but a hope.
When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
I like that the art world isn't regulated.
Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
You may sell your work, but not your soul.
Today the discredit of words is very great.
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.
Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
Why wait for a call when you have a command?
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.
