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Stands the
Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for
tea?
-- Rupert Brooke
1887-1915, British Poet
I love art,
and I love history, but it is living art and living history
that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living
history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history
can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which
cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless
imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?
-- William Morris
1834-1896, British Artist,
Writer, Printer
It is
impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore
anything that has ever been great or beautiful in
architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life
of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand
and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
-- John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic,
Social Theorist
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