Poul Henningsen Quotes

• Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.

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  Art, Significant, Ability

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• Future comes by itself, progress does not.

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  Progress, Doe

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• The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician

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  Artist, Never Forget, Should

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• Everything new stalls because there is precedence for the old

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  Precedence

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• Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary".

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  Fighting, Steps, Conservative

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• Good taste is always bad.

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  Taste, Good Taste

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• The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

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  Children, Men, Years

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• Democracy can only be measured on the existence of an opposition

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  Democracy, Existence, Opposition

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• The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

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  Simple, Views, Democracy

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