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Aesthetician Inspirational Quotes (705)

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Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
John Dewey
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No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.
John Ruskin
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As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.
Giorgio Vasari
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Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari
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When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.
Roger Scruton
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
John Ruskin
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Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
Roger Scruton
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All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
Jacques Lacan
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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin
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Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
John Ruskin
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We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
John Ruskin
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Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
John Dewey
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In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner.
John Ruskin
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We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.
John Ruskin
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
John Dewey
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Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.
John Dewey
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The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.
John Dewey
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The premium so often put in schools upon external discipline, and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home.
John Dewey
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If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.
Ernst Gombrich
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Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.
John Ruskin
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Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself
John Dewey
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