Lui said he drew inspiration from the great works of art and diverse cultures he experienced while traveling abroad.

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We would also have to include great works of art, beautiful music, great toys, award-winning movies, attractive people and anything else that brings us pleasure.

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We can understand atomic theory, and we can understand literature and learn about the great works of art and all the great things of culture, but why?

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We first encountered some of the great works of art that have shaped our lives, not in leading London galleries, but in our local museums and art galleries.

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Most importantly, it demonstrates that even when people buy judiciously, intelligently, and knowledgeably, they are still willing to spend enormous sums of money on truly great works of art, on the icons of our culture.

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But as the great works of American art, from AbEx to Minimalism and Pop, begin to show their signs of age, conservators are playing an ever more important role to collectors.

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"The great damage is to buildings and architecture, not to paintings or works of art, " said Culture Ministry spokeswoman Dita Fuchsova.

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Hence the great Bonfires of the Vanities in the Piazza della Signoria in 1497 and 1498, when countless works of art, as well as cards, books and dresses, went up in flames.

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