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"…in an age of pestilence like our own there is little but the great art of the past to convince one that the human species deserves to continue…"

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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), “Hudson: Poet Strayed into Science,” The Little Review (May-June, 1920), rpt. in Selected Prose 1909-1965, ed. William Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1975), pp. 429-432 (at 430)

(HT Laudator Temporis Acti)

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lostsplendor:

Happy Birthday Peter Carl Fabergé [1846-1920]

“Peter Carl Fabergé also known as Karl Gustavovich Fabergé in Russia was a Russian jeweller, best known for the famous Fabergé eggs, made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials. Wikipedia”

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"‎Anarchism adjures us to be bold creative artists, and care for no laws or limits. But it is impossible to be an artist and not care for laws and limits. Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame. … The artist loves his limitations: they constitute the thing he is doing. The painter is glad that the canvas is flat. The sculptor is glad that the clay is colourless."

— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (via movinggrowingbeing)

oldbookillustrations:

Front cover from Principles of decorative design, by Christopher Dresser, London, New York, 1873.

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zerogate:

Detail of a miniature of the Christian fleet approaching Gaeta with archers poised to defend the city, from the Romance of the Three Kings’ Sons, England (probably London), c. 1475 – c. 1485: London, British Library, MS Harley 326, f. 29v.

posthorn:

“St George and the Princess”, Cosmè Tura, 1469.

This painting was once part of the cover of the organ in the Cathedral in Ferrara.

"There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous."

— Raymond Chandler, ”Great Thought” (19 February 1938), published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)

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"The most magnetic power of attraction we possess lies in our mastery of the art of conversation, for it is an art."

— Correct Social Usage, 1906, page 45. (via thedailyvictorian)

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"Art, though, is never the voice of a country; it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is fiction; in particular, the novel."

— Eudora Welty, On Writing (via thelifeguardlibrarian)

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