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“It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.”

Thinking Should Writing Important Book Fiction Awareness Objects Shapes Pace

Author:Thomas Perry

“And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Looks Sometimes Reason Objects Shapes Reason Why Criticize

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”

Giving Art Character Process Objects Wind Shapes Essentials Perception Definitions Delight East Boundaries Artistic Firm Outlines No Boundaries

Author:Vance Palmer

“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.”

Ifs Important Light Felt Space Tree Fronts Movement Objects Shapes Mountain Machines Cameras Photographer Being True Grass Texture

Author:Paul Strand

“Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.”

Giving Believe Art Enough Reality Mistake Objects Shapes Art Is Reality Of Life Artifice

Book:The rehearsal: a play in three acts

Source: The rehearsal: a play in three acts

“What seems interesting to me is to reproduce in the figurative representation of an object the whole complex system of impressions we receive in the normal course of everyday life, the way this affects our feelings and the shape it takes in our memory; and it is to this that I have always applied myself.”

Way Whole Feelings Seems Courses Memories Interesting Objects Shapes Normal Complexes Everyday Impression Representation Everyday Life Our Memories Complex Systems

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .”

Literature Social Answers Deals Attention Practice Objects Theory Needed Shapes Criticism Genre Aesthetic Bent Systematic Anatomy Literary Theory Literary Genre

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.”

“He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.”

Source: Read for Your Life #18

“It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.”

Way May Moving Desire Easy Community Silence Objects Sweet Discipline Shapes Bird Tradition Crosses Wings Caught Bitter Wander Paradox Void Twisted Back And Forth Navigate

Author:Wendy Farley

“I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.”

People Form Language Lines Common Objects Shapes Structure All Time Symbols Minimum Indication Intrigued

Book:Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The video world knows no such bounds. Objects fly, spin, accelerate, change shape and color, disappear and reappear. Their behavior, like the behavior of anything created by a computer program, is limited only by the programmer's imagination. The objects in a video game are representations of objects. And a representation of a ball, unlike a real one, never need obey the laws of gravity unless its programmer wants it to.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.”

Character Helping Hands Would Be Truth Doubt Objects Shapes Illusion Proof Mediums Colour No Doubt Reflecting Trifling Fluctuation

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.”

Pain Felt Loss Pleasure Objects Shapes Notion Size Harm Colour Visible

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Locke (Illustrated)

“Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.”

Giving Art Life Is Nice Objects Shapes Art Is Very Nice Artifice

Author:Jean Anouilh

“Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.”

Thinking Wells Art Ideas Would Be Form Figures Objects Painting Shapes All Things Circles Absurd Metaphysics Imagery Figurative Art

Author:Pablo Picasso

“When I teach a class I often give the assignment: Photograph someone you love. I ask people to do this so they have a subject about whom they have feelings, a subject that is more than a model, or an object, or a shape, or an idea. In this way, they can judge the result not only by its technical success, but also by how well it describes their feelings.”

People Way Giving Wells Ideas Feelings Asks Results Class Teach Subjects Objects Judging Shapes Models Photograph Assignments One You Love Someone You Love

Book:Pictures under discussion

Source: Pictures under discussion

“Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.”

Memories Objects Please Shapes

Author:Francis Bacon

“Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.”

Form Objects Color Shapes Size

Author:Robert Barry

“If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale.”

Ifs World Children Real Hands Energy Imagination Emotion Objects Produce Materials Shapes Mass Adults Abstract Representatives Clay Lumps Raw Materials Wholesale Something Real Semiotics

Author:Keith Murray

“In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on such data we come to know about the optic nerve, the structure of our eyes, the rods and cones, etc., so as to explain how it is that vision gives us reliable access to the shapes and colors of objects around us. In reliably arriving at that theory we thus exercise the very faculty whose reliability is explained by the theory. There is no vice in this sort of circularity.”

Knows Giving Use Eye Vision Objects Color Theory Exercise Shapes Structure Vices Access Data Etc Faculty Nerves Relevant Arriving Reliability Cones Specifics Circularity

Author:Ernest Sosa

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