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Nature, and The Human Spirit: A Collection of Quotations
Nature, and The Human Spirit: A Collection of Quotations
HUM13/A24
1. Frank Lloyd Wright, writing in 1957, as cited in Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture, Nature, and the Human Spirit: A Collection of Quotations:
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
2. Charles Eames, cited in the fantastic 100 Quotes by Charles Eames:
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
5. Thomas Merton in No Man Is An Island:
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
6. Andr Gide in Potique:
Art begins with resistance at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
7. Federico Fellini in a December 1965 piece in The Atlantic, not currently online: