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Lewis Mumford Quotes

Lewis Mumford quotes about art

American Sociologist October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990

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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
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments. Lewis Mumford
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. Lewis Mumford
Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead. Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford quote: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of..."
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. Lewis Mumford

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