"All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense."

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Source : Elihu Burritt, Mary Botham Howitt (1854). “Thoughts and things at home and abroad”, p.72

Elihu Burritt

#Beautiful Quotes #Art Quotes #Order Quotes

“I have an extra set of eyelashes because you never know. I could cry or laugh, or it could be windy, and I'll need a standby pair.”
“Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.”
“Children always turn to the light.”
“Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.”
“It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.”
“I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.”
“Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.”
“Art cannot save anybody from anything.”

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