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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
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The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
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You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
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We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
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In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
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The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
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Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
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The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
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Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
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The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
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Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
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