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“The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.”

World Has Beens Hard Philosophy Reality Spirit Dies Tradition Philosophical Imperfect Representation Superficial Plato

Book:The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)

“It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.”

Sometimes Hard Artist Belief Tradition

Author:Hisham Matar

“The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress; Cezanne and after him Picasso and myself can take a lot of credit for this. Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.”

Should Art Hard Whole Form Force Mistake Taken Four Century Objects Painting Perspective Tradition Credit Disappear Renaissance Imposing Beholder Ghastly Redress Cezanne

Author:Georges Braque

“It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.”

Hard Tradition Ideology

Author:Anthony Daniels

“It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.”

Years Hard Fashion Summer Tradition Hot Climate Winter Weather Remarkable Pauses Constancy Hot Summer

Book:The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927

Source: The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927