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“I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.”

Mother Elements Comfortable Great Mother

“Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.”

May Natural Religious Consciousness Wonder Elements Plant Fishes Permanent Related Inherent Insects Fleas Sense Of Wonder Sixth Sense

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.”

Mind Different Form Elements Originals Insight Combination Originality Now And Then

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.”

States Views Quality Known Feet Style Elements Perfection Letters Agree Excellence Critics Magazines Editors Attributes Imaginary Pointing Distinguished Matthew

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.”

Activity Elements Capacity Objectives Contemporary Tendencies Conclusion Consideration Unpredictable Innate Exhibits Success Or Failure

Author:George Orwell

“I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.”

Expression Personality Genius Elements Feminine Masculine Great Work Sexually Masculine And Feminine Androgynous

Author:May Sarton

“Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one should ascribe no more importance than so many things in nature which charm us but which we do not explain to ourselves.”

World Should Artist Minutes Elements Importance Charm

Author:Pablo Picasso

“If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three.”

Ifs Use Three Five Four Elements Available Four Elements Five Elements

Author:Pablo Picasso

“What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements.”

Men Way I Can Ideas Different Use Next Vision Objects Color Painting Elements Shadow Casts My Way Originality Fuse

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.”

Men Design Elements Mathematician

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.”

Philosophy Return Elements All Things Nothingness Dissolving

Author:Lucretius

“A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.”

Art Certain Elements Surprise Works Of Art Originality Indispensable Strangeness Blossoming

Book:The Renaissance

Source: The Renaissance

“In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.”

People Thinking Humans Doe Art Left Attention One Thing Elements Accidents Sufficient Human Will

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.”

Ifs Heart Nature Powerful Elements Wilderness

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.”

Art Ideas Form Beauty Expression Materials Elements Understood Art Is Feminine Feminine Beauty Women Beauty

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing... music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.”

“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.”

Persons Used Water Five Four Rocks Strange Materials Mountain Elements Red Stones Blue Green Paint Seven Treasure Cake Jewels Rice Wondrous Rice Cakes

Author:Dogen

“It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.”

Humans Wells Has Beens Said Human Beings Sin Animal Quality Five Elements Eating Determine Various Flesh Cruelty Tendencies Demonic Well Said Five Elements

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside, towards an art of arrangement whose expressiveness depends less and less upon its elements imitating the objects of the external world.”

World Years Art Faces Steps Modern Objects Depends Elements Hundred Moved Leaving Painter Arrangements Hostility Monument Modernism Imitating Superb Incessant

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.”

Use Universe Force Elements Sake Vices Occasions Introducing Representation Unpredictable Domain Surrealism Metamorphosis Provocation Impassioned

Author:Louis Aragon

“Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.”

Art Elements Skins Sake Why Not Sensations Touching Sensational

Author:Damien Hirst

“The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.”

World Self Activity Goodness Elements Eating Drinking Drawing Desirable Transfers Assimilation Eating And Drinking

Author:Alain de Botton

“The most important element in a picture cannot be defined.”

Important Elements Defined

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.”

Virtue Elements Understood Originals Original Thought

Author:Vittorio Alfieri

“Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.”

Shows Artist Bears Fame Elements Mansions

Author:Lady Gaga

“If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.”

Ifs Art Artist Teach Greater Pieces Achieve Elements Achievement Increase Unity Variety Complexity Works Of Art Satisfying

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.”

People Thinking Art Made Stills Facts Difficult Elements Performances Made It Theatrical Performance Art

Author:Lady Gaga

“I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.”

Trying Facts Next Power Issues Elements Sexuality Life And Death Motor

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.”

Objects Painting Elements Indispensable Fabulous Splendor Impressionism

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.”

Form Used Lines Simple Cases Produce Color Elements Logical Squares Finite Variation Methodology Cubes

Author:Sol LeWitt

“The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.”

Song Voice Elements Approach Instruments Intensity Violin Flutes Tenors Sopranos Clarinet Baritones

Author:Steve Lacy

“Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.”

Art Form Elements Technique Crafts Artistry Clumsy Awkwardness

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.”

Doe Lying Easy Difficult Painting Elements Attraction Mediums Contradiction Fragile Ink Indecision Ceramics Difficult And Easy

Author:Isamu Noguchi

“I think if I have established anything in my book, it's that a key element of being my friend is being comfortable with my forced fun.”

Ifs Thinking Book Fun Keys Elements Comfortable My Friends

Author:Amy Poehler

“Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.”

Body Water Loses Virtue Greater Balance Elements Property Proportion

Book:The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.”

Littles Stories Imagine Elements Little Things Short Story Now And Then Playing God

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.”

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.”

Found Waiting Masters Elements Musician Miracle Cameras Painter Piano Canvas Predestination

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.”

Moments Might Three Courses Hours Chance Results Succeed Elements Winter Storm Snow Fierce Fifth Avenues February Fifth Avenue Snow Storms

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further careful evaluation of the choice of the Latin church to connect celibacy to ordained priesthood.”

Choices Father Church Practice Elements Married Careful Various Priests Latin Offering Eastern Priesthood Evaluation Celibacy

Author:Angelo Scola

“I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.”

Knows Humans Use Bigs Jobs Hate Games Sports Hours Know How Four Fans Football Elements I Hate Instant Nfl Umpires Football Game Football Fan Replay Nfl Football Instant Replay

Author:Bud Selig

“If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.”

Ifs Needs Different Use Internet Elements Tools Overcoming Blind Commit Range Description Barriers Disability Mail Blindness Deaf Rendering Caption Web Content

Author:Vinton Cerf

“To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Today Natural Magic Elements Way Of Thinking Natural Science

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.”

Art Body Form Childhood Elements Computer Visuals Connecting Visual Art

Author:Steve Mann

“We continue to receive reports that the morale of some elements is being damaged, .. They are being affected by the impunity with which NATO aircraft can operate over Kosovo and Serbia, the accuracy and the growing knowledge.. of deployed locations. In summary, NATO has eroded the capability of Milosevic's war machine and it is being further reduced as each day goes by.”

War Growing Elements Machines Affection Each Day Reports Affected Capability Location Accuracy Nato Aircraft Morale Impunity Summary Serbia Kosovo Growing Knowledge

Author:John Day

“Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.”

Water Elements Mood Tranquility Expressive Turbulence

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.”

May Christian Jesus Christ Church Elements Jesus Christ Fundamentals Rose Graves Radical Christian Faith Proclamation Christian Church

Book:The Gnostic Gospels

Source: The Gnostic Gospels

“I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.”

Feels Firsts Enjoy Havens Position Comfort Elements Comfortable Tees

Author:Aaron Baddeley

“Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.”

Wonder Movement Elements Paint Clouds Landscape Fascinating Free Movement

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.”

Asks Interesting Activity Elements Composition

Author:Robert Genn

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