Quote by Lewis Mumford
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without prep

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. – Lewis Mumford

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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. – Lewis Mumford

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. – Honore de Balzac

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Art is pictures straight from the heart. – Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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