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“A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.”

Energy Differences Lines Movement Expression Graphic Repose Vertical Horizontal Deviate

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.”

Mind Play Results Serious Expression Repose Exertion Grotesque Frivolous

Book:The Stones of Venice

Source: The Stones of Venice

“As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.”

Firsts Might Energy Expression Demand Tests Opposites Unity Variety Capability Repose Implied Ignoble

Author:John Ruskin

“Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.”

Energy Expression Demand Opposites Capability Repose Implied

Book:Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed

Source: Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed

“In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.”

Looks Lasts Faces Deals Gone Five Minutes Dog Expression Terrible Disguise Five Minutes My Dog Repose

Author:Judy Holliday

“He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.”

Children Moments Might Faces White Animal Cities Expression Broken Stones Silent Climbing Scream Towers Summit Repose Cracked Chained Climbing Up

Author:Peter Ackroyd