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“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

“Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.”

Whole Style Elements Direct Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:El-P

“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

“There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain harmony, that conscious mind and will cannot direct. Perhaps analysis and the separate mastery of each element are required before the instincts are ready to assume command, but only at first. Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.”

Source: The Joy of Sports: End Zones, Bases, Baskets, Balls, and the Consecration of the American Spirit

“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being. ... the universal gravity of bodies, ... is merely the reverse or shadow of that which really moves nature. Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.”

World Heart May Body Moving Universe Force Elements Shadow Direct Universal Driven Gravity Reverse Fragments Subtlety Nature Love Convergence

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.”

People Thinking Kind Easy Black Identity Color Gay Conflict Elements Direct All Kinds Layers

Author:John Amaechi

“I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began to make the work. The island was made in direct response. I used the diagnostic tool of Rorschach blots - something designed to extract and evaluate the dark and unconscious elements of our personality.”

Made Said Wanted Used Dark Personality Elements Tools Direct Response Islands Unconscious Massive Invited Evaluate Rorschach

Author:Ben Quilty

“Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.”

Humans Art Culture Religious Human Beings Creativity Environment Elements Direct Function Sacred Leisure Innate Artifacts Leisure Time Sacred Art

Author:Michael Ventura

“I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or is an element in some of my books, and that's probably a direct result of where I've grown up. But other than that I don't draw particularly on the Australian landscape or the Australian biology and so on. So I don't think there's anything you could point to and say is particularly Australian.”

Thinking Kind Book Stories Results Elements Draws Direct Legs Landscape Biology Sense Of Humor Pulling Australian Laconic

Author:Garth Nix

“I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.”

Art Artist Effects Elements Direct Accounts Representation Day To Day Direct Effect

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings