As budding radicals, it does seem as though Eva and Franco Mattes wanted to give the finger to the art world and art history, with its hero worship, its veneration of dead objects, its stale preciosities. From Wordnik.com. [Couple stole more than other artists' ideas] Reference
Art is not a "hole and corner" thing, an affair of professional preciosities and discriminations, a set of tiresome rules to be learned by rote. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
For the solace of books is never selfish -- the book-miser is never the book-lover, nor does the mere collector of rarities and preciosities deserve that name, for the one hoards, but does not own; the other serves. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference
Love, returning to the Abbe Tallemant’s dainty preciosities. From Wordnik.com. [A Memoir of Mrs. Behn] Reference
A wide outlook will help us to avoid exaggerations, preciosities, and fanaticisms. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Mysticism] Reference
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