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Home Art Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Polly, August 17, 2013

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You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

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I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

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