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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.


Italo Calvino


#begins #born #catalogue #cities #city

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti


#absurdity #audience #climbs #constantly #death

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.


Arthur C. Clarke


#against #earth #easy #extreme #forms

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.


Gustave Courbet


#forms #ideal #negation #painting #realism

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.


Gustave Courbet


#artist #beautiful #belongs #discovers #diverse

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.


E. M. Forster


#condition #great #great literature #literature #man

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.


Hans-Georg Gadamer


#aesthetic #alienated #being #clear #consciousness

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.


John W. Gardner


#county #courage #diverse #eloquence #find

I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that.


Arthur Hertzberg


#forms #fundamentalism #god #hope #i

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.


Albert Hofmann


#began #closed #colors #day #enjoy






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