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An Artist is first of all an artisan and a work of art is first of all a work.

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Category is the the action of a public accusation, asking someone to account for their actions in front of witnesses.

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Color is, as a result of lacking a secure theoretical basis for classification, rooted in the physical substances or locations that provide it. White is not white but 'white from milos' and red is not 'red' but 'red from sinope on the black sea'.

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Color is conceived not in terms of tint but in terms of luster, hence the same word being to describe darkened blood and a cloud or to describe the glint of metal and a tree.

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Color is integral to the experience of shape, whether natural or man-made.

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Color is not fixed as a noun with properties and differences... instead, it acts as a verb: Yellow can 'redden' and red can 'yellow'.

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Color is not just hue, as it is for us in the west today, but rather, it is discriminated on a scale between light and dark, brilliance or luster, as well as hue.

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Color is organic to the work as a whole, a necessary dimension, an integral part of the end product from conception.

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Concealment is the idea that things, refusing themselves to us, draw into hiddenness.

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Courage is a virile quality which women are unable to possess.

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Courage is as one of the four cardinal virtues, firmness of mind and resoluteness of spirit despite the fearful awareness of risk.

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Courage is more than merely a prerequisite for citizenship... like freedom, it is virtually a precondition for the possession of humanity itself.

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Courage is the quality of emotional and intellectual fortitude sufficient to carry out what prudence and justice determined to be the proper course of action in any situation.

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Culture is not mere decoration of life. It signifies a striving toward a new and improved nature, without inside and outside, without dissimulation and convention. Culture is the accord of life, thought, appearing and willing.

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Democracy is when the members of the demos (those with no firmly determined place in the hierarchical social edifice) presented themselves as the representatives, the stand-ins, for the whole of society, for the true universality'.

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Knowledge is, in a sense, the becoming of the object that becomes known. This is because a knower cannot know an object without some sort of identity of elements between them. In coming to know something, we also, through knowing it, at the same time, become more like it.

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Language is either language which imitates appearance and images, or language which imitates the world of music.

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Language is the imitation of appearance and images on the one hand, and the imitation of the world of music on the other.

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Meaning always referred back to immanence as it was understood as a product of life for its own use and advancement.