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Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

Lewis Mumford

Nothing endures except life: the capacity for birth, growth, and renewal.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Birth Growth Immortality
New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
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Cities Country People Perfect
Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.
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Growth Self Transformation
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.
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Focus Past Provoking Thought
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
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Children Cutting Inspiration
The self holds both a hell and a heaven.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Heaven Hell Self
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.
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Architecture Prophecy Tomb
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
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Flower Funny Witty
The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man’s cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Creativity Men Order
For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Accepting Mean Progress
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Art Machines Opportunity
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Country Men People Safety
The artist does not illustrate science; … [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Artist Expression Science
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Funny Humor Inspirational
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Baby Mom People
If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.
LEWIS MUMFORD

Adventure Justified Should

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