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“No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.”

Art Poetry Accepting Unique Models Lows Ordinary Art Is Function Extraordinary Commonplace

Author:Rosalind E. Krauss

“The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability.”

Humans Country Form Lows Organization Function Village Formulas Stability Intensity Participation Country Life

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“This is the essential distinction--even opposition--between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, thefilm objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer--in actual practice it is rated very low--we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”

World Mind Mean Film Practice Pieces Cutting Painting Materials Essentials Lows Function Paint Rate Mediums Cinema Meals Visible Distinction Opposition Scenarios Docile

Author:Herbert Read

“It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.”

Facts Order Lows Function Mathematical Fortunate Surprising

Author:Rudolf Carnap

“When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.”

World States Energy Levels Lows Function Fearful Our Thoughts Energetic Low Level

Book:Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose

Source: Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose

“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962”

Source: A Life in Letters