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“Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw must either be taken whole or left alone. He must be disassembled and put together again with nothing left out, under pain of incomprehension; for his politics, his art, and his religion - to say nothing of the shape of his sentences - are unique expressions of this enormously enlarged and yet concentrated consciousness.”

Way Doe Art Whole Pain Together Left Difficult Consciousness Taken Expression Shapes Unique Sentences Territory Propositions Left Alone Left Out Together Again Incomprehension

Author:Jacques Barzun

“You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space.”

Ideas Left Born Space Brain Seeing Painting Activity Shapes Structure Mood Realization Colour Entering Engaging Hemisphere

Author:Guido Molinari

“Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.”

Reason Left Ought Shapes Disorder

Book:The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.”

People Ifs Art Would Be Able Form House Left Race Shapes Built Mentality Buttons

Author:Adolf Loos

“I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape of the picture again... The pictures are alive because of the white remnant, the almost concealment.”

Lasts Left White Alive Shapes Tiny Spots Just One Relax Remnants Concealment

Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition

Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition

“Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.”

Mind Stills Seems Left Ignorance Color Politician Fit Shapes Dresses Painful Reports Pants Boots Speakers Worn Reporters Senators Coats Omission Vests Neckties

Book:Ginger-Snaps

Source: Ginger-Snaps

“All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.”

Mind Art Feelings Hands Eye Moving Form Father Left Memories Seeing Car Shapes West Defined Hills Landscape Sensations Touching Riding Sculpture Hollow Texture Thrust Sculptors

Book:A Pictorial Autobiography

Source: A Pictorial Autobiography

“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.”

Two Left Water Secret Behinds Shapes Elements Stones Crosses Primaries Desert Abundance Exposed Canvas Left Behind Rarity Vegetation Ferocity

Author:Craig Childs

“And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.”

Believe Wells Soul Light Pain Fighting Left Rooms Ignorance Shapes Late Weight My Soul Awake Dull Too Late Subtle Pulling Blissful Ignorance

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing