“We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.” NeedsLittlesLastsPiecesElements Author:James E. Faust
“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.” IfsArtArtistTeachGreaterPiecesAchieveElementsAchievementIncreaseUnityVarietyComplexityWorks Of ArtSatisfying Author:David Steindl-Rast
“One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and leave a fabric of relationships behind, which is the stuff that actually repeats itself, and gives the structure to a building or a town.” ThinkingGivingSeemsStuffBehindsPiecesBuildingElementsTownsStructureBlockRepeatsFabricBuilding Blocks Author:Christopher Alexander
“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.” IfsMindDoePurposePiecesAchievePaintingExerciseElementsCrossesAbstractThreadUniformsFabricRepresentationLackingIncompleteComplementary Author:Juan Gris
“Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.” IfsWellsImportantPiecesAmountElementsNotesMeaningfulRhythmArtisticOrganized Author:Anthony Davis
“When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to talk about were the ideas in the movie, the theme of it, and contextual elements that weren't necessarily central to the story. But the only thing people really wanted was a plot description and how many stars I'd give it. It didn't matter how much effort you put into writing a piece, they looked at it solely as a consumer's guide toward going or not going to films.” PeopleGivingWritingKindIdeasMatterReasonStoriesWantedFilmFoundStarsEffortPiecesElementsCriticsGuidesConsumersThemeDescriptionPlotFilm Critics Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.” WayWholeTogetherUniversePiecesElementsOne WayCosmosConsideringPositivelyWovenOne Piece Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.” ArtFilmPiecesElementsSatisfyingCompleting Author:Robert Stromberg
“Do not think I do not realise what I am doing. I am making a composition using the following elements: the winter beach; the winter moon; the ocean; the women; the pine trees; the riders; the driftwood; the shells; the shapes of darkness and the shapes of water; and the refuse. These are all inimical to my loneliness because of their indifference to it. Out of these pieces of inimical indifference, I intend to represent the desolate smile of winter which, as you must have gathered, is the smile I wear.” ThinkingWaterDarknessPiecesTreeLonelinessShapesMoonElementsOceanWinterFollowingRefuseBeachIndifferenceRealisingShellsCompositionRidersDesolatePine TreesDriftwoodWinter Moon Author:Angela Carter
“If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.” IfsWayPlayFilmWorryPiecesBalanceElementsNegativeAspectStrongerAddBest WayVillain Author:Alec Baldwin
“I decided to make myself a little less precious with my storytelling. I think you can see from the first three pieces in the book that I have a long term relationship with the short story as a form and I really love an elegantly crafted story that has several elements that come together in a way that is emotionally complex and different from when we started. That kind of crystalline, perfect, idealized thing that the short story as a genre has come to represent.” ThinkingWayFirstsKindLittlesLongBookDifferentStoriesTogetherFormThreeTermPerfectPiecesElementsDecidedComplexesStorytellingGenreLong TermShort StoryLong Term Relationship Author:Lucy Corin
“Ayahuasca is a brew that's made from the vine, which is the hallucinogenic element. And then there's also this leaf from a bush. And the vine is supposed to be the masculine and the bush is supposed to be the feminine, and this female shaman did a tea drinking ceremony with us, where we drank Wyoosa. And the intention was to go and find pieces of your soul that were missing and bring them back to your body so you could live more fully with yourself and it's called soul retrieval.” MadeSoulBodyPiecesMissingElementsFemaleIntentionDrinkingYour BodySupposed To BeTeaYour SoulFeminineLeafsMasculineCeremonyDrankVinesAyahuascaTea Drinking Author:Larkin Grimm
“All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.” MenTryingLastsCommonMistakePiecesSubjectsPeriodsElementsStandardsStartingPhilosopherContemporaryConclusionAnalysisFixedPassiveTestimonyResortsStarting Point Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.” TryingChallengesPiecesMissingElementsMercyGreedObsessionBlockSymbolsHopefullyMake SenseObsessedToastsWatsonEndearingMissing Piece Author:Kate DiCamillo
“The parts in which I elaborated on the sexual life of the doctor herself, the personal life, her relation with men [in Memoirs of a Woman Doctor]. All this. They left only some very, very minute parts. And also the political, the political element in it. So in a way, they cut pieces that to my mind were very important.” MenWayMindImportantPoliticalLeftPiecesCuttingMinutesElementsDoctorsRelationMemoirPersonal Life Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.” EndsGamesSimplePiecesHigherElementsChessStakesLifeboatsLife Of Pi Book Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated