Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
Interpretation
Ignoring beauty in life will lead to a lack of beauty around you.
Frank Lloyd Wright emphasizes the importance of recognizing and appreciating beauty in our surroundings. When we dismiss or overlook beauty, we risk its absence in our lives, highlighting the idea that appreciation is essential for its existence.
In practice
During a speech on mindfulness, one could quote this to emphasize the importance of appreciating the beauty around us.
Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
The lighter the skin, the more acceptable you are. The darker the skin, the more marginalised you become. I want to demonstrate that you can produce beauty in the context of a figure that has that kind of velvety blackness. It can be done.
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