Bernard Rudofsky Quotes
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.
Bernard Rudofsky
Quotes to Explore
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
Ted Deutch
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
Fernand Leger
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
Dallas Willard
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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Ovid
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.
Patrick Marber
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
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I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
Oscar Wilde
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Eloquence is logic on fire.
Lyman Beecher
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Oscar Wilde
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Everything was believed except the truth.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
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Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.
E. O. Wilson
