Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
Every hour of useful work is precious.
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.
Art history is littered with work that involves light.
When things cost so much, you appreciate it much more.
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'
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