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Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity. ”
I've long believed the environmental issue is an economic issue and a political issue. The three are entwined. You can't build prosperity on any basis other than a long-term basis, and you can't do that if you don't have a healthy environment. ”
Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together. ”
Turner - whether on canvas or paper - can create almost measurable distances of space and air - air that you can draw, in which you can work out what the section through it would be. The space he creates is not emptiness; it is filled with 'solid' atmosphere. ”
Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. People found him disturbing because they didn't like their existing ideas being challenged and overturned. Cezanne was probably the key figure in my lifetime. ”
A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect. ”
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. ”
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. ”
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. ”
In art economy is always beauty. ”