Lewis Mumford Quotes - Page 6

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• As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography is used - as pastiches of textiles are used in crazy-quilts - to form a mosaic. Whatever value the montage may have derives from painting rather than the camera.

  Lewis Mumford

  Photography, Quilts, Crazy

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• It was Stieglitz's endeavor... to translate the unseen world of tactile values as they develop between lovers not merely into the sexual act but the entire relation of two personalities - to translate this world of blind touch into sight.

  Lewis Mumford

  Sight, Two, Personality

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• We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.

  Lewis Mumford

  Expression, Organization, Giving

  "Values for Survival". Essay by Lewis Mumford, 1946.

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• While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.

  Lewis Mumford

  Good Life, Garden, Expression

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• The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Children, School, Emotional

  Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

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• 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

  Play, Long, People

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• It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

  Lewis Mumford

  Writing, Men, Toys

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• Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

  Lewis Mumford

  Past, Thought Provoking, Focus

  "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

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• By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development. It pays infinite attention to the incubator-and it forgets the egg!

  Lewis Mumford

  Civilization, Eggs, Growth

  Lewis Mumford (1975). “Findings and keepings: analects for an autobiography”, Not Avail

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• Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

  Lewis Mumford

  Ambition, Advice, Deeds

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