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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.


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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.



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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.





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