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Craftsmanship
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True artists do not create to fish for compliments and praises. They create to express the love they have for their craft.
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― Sips And Little Portions
― Sips And Little Portions
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He [John Summerson] wrote that Georgian buildings, in particular, did not rely on an 'irrecoverable sense of craftsmanship for the pleasure they give. Personally I find great enhancement in reconstructed classical architecture. I like the new, sharp-cut masonry of Peckwater quadrangle at Christ Church, and wish that much more of Oxford's scrofulous architecture could be "touched for the King's evil" in the same way'. 59
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Part of his objection to their restoration rested on the fact that alt
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― The Georgian Group Journal Volume XXXI 2023
― The Georgian Group Journal Volume XXXI 2023
