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“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.”
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“The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.”
― The Stones of Venice
― The Stones of Venice
“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Correction
― Correction
“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.”
― Metaphors on Vision
― Metaphors on Vision
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