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"I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture."
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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary."
Art
"Vision is the true creative rhythm."
Vision
"Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint."
Nature
"The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness."
Consciousness
"Our understanding is correlative to our perception."
Perception
"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."
Art
"First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm."
Art
"Painting is by nature a luminous language."
Nature
"Nature engenders the science of painting."
Nature
"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness."
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