The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. - Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

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To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

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Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

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One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.

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In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

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