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July 12, 1817
More Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.