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“You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.”

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Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-born American abstract expressionist painter. Known for his bold colors and dynamic brushstrokes, his work had a profound impact on 20th-century art. more

“Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.”

Different Enough Song Voice Imagination Attention Pages Ears Structure Sentences Dramatic Tone Prose Ingenuity

Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't.”

Ifs Writing

Author:James Galvin

“Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.”

Universe Mathematical Holistic

Book:Greater South Africa: plans for a better world

Source: Greater South Africa: plans for a better world

“Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you want to go.”

Want Trying Details Dynamics

Author:Anthony Stafford Beer

“The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.”

Literature Common Enemy Worst Anarchy Efficiency Decency Worst Enemy Common Decency

Book:Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays

Source: Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays

“In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to their elements. Understanding proceeds from the whole to its parts, not from the parts to the whole as knowledge does.”

Thinking Doe Whole Understanding Elements Understood Increase Expanding Reducing Systems Thinking

Author:Russell L. Ackoff

“For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.”

Humans Today America Natural Grace Integrity Architecture Locals Logical Openness Balanced Embodiment Lightness Human Freedom America Today Spaciousness Organic Architecture

Book:1949-1959

Source: 1949-1959

“All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.”

Strategy Degenerates

Author:Peter Drucker

“Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive.”

Statements Clarity Exclusive Accuracy

Author:Niels Bohr

“History is only gossip.”

Gossip

Author:Oscar Wilde

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