"Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal."

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"Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

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"The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye."

Art

"Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head."

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"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."

Cause

"Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning."

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"I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation."

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"Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising."

Advertising

"Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control."

Control

"Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues."

Architecture

"A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence."

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"When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us."

Work