W. W. Dumas famous quotes

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.
-- W. W. Dumas

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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.