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“Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.”

Ifs Mind Doe Purpose Pieces Achieve Painting Exercise Elements Crosses Abstract Thread Uniforms Fabric Representation Lacking Incomplete Complementary

Author:Juan Gris

“Imagine a world where nothing is stable. In the West, we have three moving elements -- Air, Fire, Water -- but at least we can depend on the fourth.”

World Moving Three Water Fire Imagine Air Depends Elements West Stable Fourth

Book:Eight and a half women

Source: Eight and a half women

“The army influences everything I do. Certainly it teaches you discipline, which is a necessary element of development. I think there's more of a collaborative understanding in the band because of that.”

Thinking Understanding Teach Influence Development Discipline Band Elements Army

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect.”

People Thinking Matter Use Powerful Creativity Creative Effects Talent Keys Elements Luck Fundamentals

Book:The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best

Source: The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best

“I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point of view and that, confronted with all these surfaces of different colours, they responded far more to the inter-relationship of the different propositions, they reconstituted the elements of a decorative polychromy.”

Trying Different Shows Views Elements Surface Point Of View I Realized Colour Prisoner Propositions Different Colours

Author:Yves Klein

“The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.”

World Mean Made Shows Reality Earth Lasts Space Saws Materials Return Elements Machines Blue Extremes Speed Colour Show Me Coming Back April Tangible Excluded Inhuman Irises

Author:Yves Klein

“Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.”

Able Language Degrees Elements Chemistry Chemicals Transformed Employed Nomenclature

Author:Antoine Lavoisier

“The thing that attracts people to "The Sopranos" is the family element. It shows that America still has a longing for that traditional upbringing.”

People Stills Shows America Elements Longing Traditional Upbringing Sopranos

Author:Christine O'Donnell

“The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust. The religious element in the colony-unlike the former Huguenot emigration to Brazil--was evidently subordinate. The adventurers thought more of their fortunes than of their faith.”

Young Religious Elements Expectations Paid Fortune Golden Former Expenses Disgusting Volunteer Harvest Impatience Colony Subordinates Brazil Adventurer Emigration

Book:Pioneers of France in the New World

Source: Pioneers of France in the New World

“What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!”

“Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.”

Elements Germany Reconstruction Anti Semitism Unifying

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.”

Matter Left Gone Elements Good Things Core Symbolic

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.”

Men Love Heart Elements Diverse

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Certain Grows Vision Creative Elements Purity Tunnels Tunnel Vision Myopic

Author:David Sanborn

“The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise ... genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.”

Firsts Heart Littles Ideas Girl Dark Hero Horror Elements Victim Series Surprise Genre Blonde Alleys Element Of Surprise Busting Dark Alleys Blonde Girl

Author:Joss Whedon

“Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?”

Book Real Study Reader Elements Approach Pages Technique Ontology Guerrillas

Book:The Illuminati Papers

Source: The Illuminati Papers

“We will make yogurt with all kinds of nutritious elements. We want to provide nutrition to the poor and children.”

Want Kind Children Poor Elements All Kinds Nutrition Yogurt

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.”

“Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared.”

People Ifs Way Wells Long Has Beens Ends Enough Form One Thing Stupid Elements Kingdoms Nationalism Scotland Spectrum Civics Scottish Ethnicity

Author:Neal Ascherson

“The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.”

Real Desire Grows Issues Talent Design Elements Independent Persistence Characteristics Modest Graphic Artist Graphic Designer Creative Design

Author:Milton Glaser

“So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden one into another's, that some of the most sagacious of men, as Cardinal Mazarin and Rothschild, seem to have been inclined to regard luck as the first element of worldly success; experience, sagacity, energy, and enterprise as nothing, if linked to an unlucky star.”

Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life

“An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple of pauses close together, contrasted with a longer unit of grammar.”

Mean Together Reading Force Clear Couple Elements Units Pauses Grammar Underestimated Reading Aloud

Author:Robert Pinsky

“There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.”

Stills Political Elements Notion Obsession France Elites Preoccupation Delusional

Book:The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

Source: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

“The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.”

Truth Elements Dawn Gloom Advent Agitate

Book:Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom

Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom

“Despite the array of groups and organizations working on global warming, we are still missing a key element: the movement. Along with the hard work of not-for-profit lobbyists, environmental lawyers, green economists, sustainability-minded engineers, and forward-thinking entrepreneurs, it's going to take the inspired political involvement of millions of Americans to get our country on track to solving this problem.”

“There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences . Many arts there are which beautify the mind of man; but of all none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical , unto the knowledge of which no man can attain, without perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry.”

Men Mind Doe Art Soul Perfect Principles Reader Elements Mathematical Gentle Instruction Geometry Art And Science Good Art

Author:John Dee

“The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of the theory is to demonstrate these laws; it reduces all physical researches on the propagation of heat, to problems of the integral calculus, whose elements are given by experiment. No subject has more extensive relations with the progress of industry and the natural sciences; for the action of heat is always present, it influences the processes of the arts, and occurs in all the phenomena of the universe.”

“To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real" in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience.”

World Real Matter Reason Form Process Numbers Particular Elements Foundation Manifestation Realms Unconscious Attributes Outer Worlds Jung Qualitative

Book:Number and Time

Source: Number and Time

“Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.”

World Matter Reality Spirit Lying Numbers Behinds Principles Elements Backgrounds Factors Realms Psychics Primal Archetype Jung

Author:Marie-Louise von Franz

“The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.”

Elements Election Remains Oil Crucial Ambiguity Variables

Author:Hugh S. Johnson

“Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with the interests of the workmen.”

Interest Source Disease Elements Wine Shops Enmity Workmen

Author:Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert

“Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.”

Humans Sometimes Body Form Color Elements Rose Strikes Instance Colour Human Body

Author:Ferdinand Hodler

“In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.”

Ifs Want Feels Use Moving Process Clear Elements Remains Add Statements Visuals Editing

Author:Gerald Brommer

“I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across and touch other objects in the set up.”

Light Lying Strong Design Objects Elements Shadow Direct Patterns Abstract Intricate

Author:William C. Wright

“Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.”

Order Elements Models Hundred Imperfect Masterpiece Borrowed

Author:Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

“There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.”

Made Existence Theory Offers Elements Mere Mystical Borrowed Expenditures Keynes

Book:Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

Source: Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory

“We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.”

May Littles Important Individual Justice Views Speech Elements Messages Function Constitution Regard Sanctions Cognitive Often Is

Author:John Marshall Harlan II

“I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I think is a nifty concept, I'll give it a whirl.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Stories Worry Elements Concepts Come Up

Author:Richard Laymon

“We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.”

Source: The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know

“Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.”

Bigs Influence Awareness Elements Species Cosmic Relevance Implications

Author:Tim Lebbon

“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

Might Turns Passion Difficult Beauty Moral Fashion Periods Elements Eternal Eternity Difficulty Determine Relative Quantity

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.”

Source: Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age

“I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.”

Thinking May Littles Book Stories Use Shows Fiction Novel Strange Elements Benefits Science Fiction Harm Tiny Cooks Genre Friendly Puzzles Detectives Isaac Detective Stories

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

“Inevitably I came to associate any wine I met with a specific place and a particular slant of history. I learned to perceive more than could be deduced from an analysis of the physical elements in the glass. For me, an important part of the pleasure of wine is its reflection of the total environment that produced it. If I find in a wine no hint of where it was grown, no mark of the summer when the fruit ripened, and no indication of the usages common among those who made it, I am frustrated and disappointed. Because that is what a good, honest wine should offer.”

Source: A Vineyard in My Glass

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.”

“These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced. For in a world where anything or anyone can be owned, manipulated, and exploited for profit, everything and everyone will be.”

World May Order Dangerous Prove Elements Profit Fundamentalism Emerging

Book:The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

“The rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.”

Dream Earth Sea Possibility Strange Elements Research Revelations Speculation Murmuring

Author:William Crookes

“Which was first, Matter or Force? If we think on this question, we shall find that we are unable to conceive of matter without force, or force without matter. When God created the elements of which the earth is composed, He created certain wondrous forces, which are set free and become evident when matter acts on matter.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Matter Earth Certain Force Elements Evident Wondrous

Book:A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

Source: A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other ... Edited by W. Crookes. With numerous illustrations

“Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social structure as props in his self-expressive act.”

“The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.”

Ifs Men Would Be Party Existence Cases Elements Benefits Thirds Difficulty Stronger Occasions Combination Labour Swings Introducing Labour Party Pendulums Third Parties Liberal Party

Author:Austen Chamberlain