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The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character
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Prophet of the Human-Built World: An Introduction to John Ruskin
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Up to now, we have collectively learned to admire the values of the arts (which can be summed up as a devotion to truth, beauty and goodness) in the special arena of galleries. But their more important application is in the general, daily fabric of our lives – the area that’s currently dominated by an often depleted vision of commerce. It’s a
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and nothing can reach them so little as criticism. Only love can grasp them and keep hold of them and be just to them. Always trust yourself and your own feelings as opposed to any such analysis, review or introduction; if you should be wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will lead you slowly
... See moreRainer Maria Rilke • Letters to a Young Poet
Ruskin connected the wish to travel fast and far to an inability to derive appropriate pleasure from any one place
Alain De Botton • The Art of Travel
“Just that. Listen, wasn’t it Odo who said that where there’s property there’s theft?” “ ‘To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.’