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“Twentieth century art unambiguously proclaims that the standards and conventions of beauty accepted by all Christian people in bygone eras have been wholeheartedly rejected— not edited and refined but degraded and discarded.”

Book:Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity

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“Beauty is what lies beyond usefulness. Beauty inspires loyalty and gives meaning to mere usefulness. We need useful things, but we love beautiful things. A building which is merely functional will not last, for people will not love it. They will get bored with it. The average football stadium now costs a billion dollars to build and lasts just thirty years, after which it appears dated, silly, and unfashionable. The Chartres Cathedral, on the other hand, is more beautiful than any sports complex on earth and it has been functional for more than 800 years. Beautiful things last because when they begin to fall apart, we tend to them, revive and restore them; however, when purely functional things fall apart, we tire of them and replace them.”

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Book:Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity

Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity

“The whole morality of the Sermon on the Mount belongs here; man takes a truly voluptuous pleasure in violating himself by exaggerated demands and then deifying this something in his soul that is so tyrannically taxing. In each ascetic morality, man prays to one part of himself as god and also finds its necessary to diabolify the rest.”

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Book:Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“The human animal, gifted with unique brainpower, stood askance from instinct's shackles, becoming a detached observer of the world. As the only creature daring to ask ‘why,’ it sought meaning and virgin-birthed the quadruplet firmaments of art, theology, politics, and philosophy.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“Because that's all art is, in the end. One person trying to get another person they have never met to fall in love with them.”

Art Falling In Love

Book:Margo's Got Money Troubles

Source: Margo's Got Money Troubles

“Can there be art without the human in it? Maybe that is what I wish to capture: beast as seen by beast, tree as seen by tree. I jest, but not really.”

Art Painting

Book:North Woods

Source: North Woods

“I golf like a Jackson Pollock painting, but that's balanced out by the fact that I paint like Jack Nicklaus golfs. My record is finishing in 63 strokes.”

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Book:To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

Source: To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“When I golf, I use just enough strokes to create a masterpiece, like I'm a painter. The score I post up would look great on a museum wall.”

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Book:To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

Source: To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“What is that beauty which the artist struggles to express from lumps of earth”

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Book:A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man

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