#fixed

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#apparently #becomes #final #finished #fixed

Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#fixed #islam #muslims #ordered #stable

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

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The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

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Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

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I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand. ↗

— George Foreman

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