This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
PRINCE CHARLESIf you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce – like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
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Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?
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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
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I find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.
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