Every work of art is an ...

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

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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in peace they lose in sensibility and significance.
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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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.
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!
 Lewis Mumford
Each one of us, as long as life stirs is us, may play a part in extricating ourselves from the power system by asserting our primacy as people in quiet acts of mental or physical withdrawal-in gestures of non-conformity, in abstentions, restrictions, inhibitions, which will liberate us from the domination of the pentagon of power.
 Lewis Mumford