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Works of art express space as opportunity for movement and action.

— John Dewey Art as Experience (1934)

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

The Quest for Certainty (1929)

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

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Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

The true antithesis of nature is not art but arbitrary conceit, fantasy, and stereotyped convention.

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Coleridge said that every work of art must have about it something not understood to obtain its full effect.

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