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Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.
Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal.
Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.
Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge
Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle.
Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.
In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.
The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.
The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.
Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained.
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
Every meaning is a projection of the viewer's inarticulate moods.
Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.
Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.
Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.