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Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

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It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Catch, Form, Reality, Significant, Ultimate
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The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Aesthetic, Art, Emotion, Road, Same, World

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

Air, Art, Product, Rose, Strange

What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.

Art, Color, Combined, Moving, Particular, Visual

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Believe, Convince Us, Fundamental, Justice, True, Truths

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

Art, Feeling, Feelings, Mean, Recognising, Work
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