#arts

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#both #clearly #comprehend #details #diverse

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff. ↗

— John Poindexter

#continue #counterterrorism #defense #department #elements

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#arts #attracted #bias #conservative #greater

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#architecture #arising #arts #formed #help

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#beauty #being #dimensions #duly #each

Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#effective #general #may #parts #regulated

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#god #nature #parts #soul #stupendous

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#begins #dance #departs #far #gets

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#grows #humanity #manure #rich #soil

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#one thing #only #should #something #suppose