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Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem.
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The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
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Monumentality is an affair of relativity. The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else ? its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated.
People |
Poor men do penance for rich men's sins.
Experience | Openness | People | Personality | Safe |
Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it.
Nothing improves the taste of pasta more than a good appetite.
Take the will for the deed.
Focus | Government | People | Price | Government |
Penny and penny laid up will be many.
Diversity | People | Understanding | Understand |
Skill or fortune will efface the spots.
Evidence | Feelings | Little | People | Understand |
That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.
People | Present | Relationship |