“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.” PeopleIfsFirstsKindLongArtEnoughFormUsedCultureFieldsFirst TimeAppreciationMake SenseModernism Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.” GivingMayLongCausesClearEffectsNeededMake SenseImpossibilityEloquentBrevityRenderingPausingWorkmanshipCompression Author:Laura Riding
“If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream.” IfsMindLongStatesDreamHandsAwarenessMovementBabyPureMake SenseParadoxState Of MindWakingAutisticAccommodations Author:Jean Piaget