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“Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.”

Art Can Do Successful Sacrifice Effects Essentials Triumph Poetry Is Verses Explicit

Author:Clement Greenberg

“The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.”

Facts Interesting Effects Painting Essentials Notes Simplicity Studios Pencils Most Interesting Elimination

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents.”

Ifs Wells Play Character Together Effects Produce Speech Essentials Finished Tragic Plot Strings Incidents Expressive Diction Playwriting

Book:Poetics

Source: Poetics

“What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for theAtlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East.”

“No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.”

Ifs Feels Pieces Effects Produce Essentials Notes Reasoning Melody Folds

Book:Modern Painters ...: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

Source: Modern Painters ...: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation

“History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.”

Heart Christian Sin Deals Existence Effects Essentials Messages Concerned Wrongdoing

Author:Dallas Willard

“Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.”

Should Kind Found Term Natural Ability Effects Students Essentials Philosophical Athlete Coaches Limitation Wrestling Stance Wrestler Estimation

Author:John Irving

“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”

“The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.”

Humans Mean Facts Science Three Tree Effects Essentials Plant Size Active Manage Atmosphere Soil Cycles Smallest Carbon Disturbance Reservoirs Carbon Cycle

Author:Freeman Dyson

“I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.”

Should Effects Depends Essentials Photography Finals Photographer Finished Operations Print Printing Be Considerate

Book:Camera in London

Source: Camera in London