“All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.”
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
