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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.


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Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.



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The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.



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There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.



Letters are things, not pictures of things.

Letters are things, not pictures of things.



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If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.



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Continued experiment with dog today.



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Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.



If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.



The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.



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Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.





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