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Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.


Alvar Aalto
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Lady Bird Johnson
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.


Orson F. Whitney
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!


Honore de Balzac
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We have control over the work of our hands, but little over the working of the soul. But yet we must yield to it, for without it we have nothing.
George William Russell
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But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.
James Henry Breasted
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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
Simone Weil
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.


Oscar Wilde
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.


Salvador Dali
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
Hans Hofmann
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I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.


James Polshek
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.


Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
William Jennings Bryan
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.


Karen Horney
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
Richard MacDonald
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner
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We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.


James Hillman
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
Francisco Costa