The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
David Herbert Lawrence
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More quotes by David Herbert Lawrence
- Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
- Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
- The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
- The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
- Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.