#press

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. ↗

— Richard Courant

#aesthetic #analysis #basic #basic elements #construction

BLOODY LIPS The bloody wound Of the gladiator Gurgles out life's end. The cries of acclimations from the stands Fill the sky with raging tigers. Waving their arms about to incite the masses The aging notables add an air of dignity to the arena. Making their separate entries they K N E E L over the still-warm corpses Of the young. Their withered lips they pose Upon the fresh flowing wounds And, to prolong their lives – so they believe, Suck, ravenously suck out the blood, blood, blood. Fresh blood from the sun Flowing into filthy veins As into sewage pipes, And thus the Heart of the Nation is abandoned. ↗

— Visar Zhiti

#bloodsport #gladiators #oppression #tyranny #vampire

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#few #ground #ground zero #most #north

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#argument #concern #heart #human #more

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression. ↗

— David Duchovny

#any #i #kind #protect #self-expression

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#choice #concept #enable #familiar #hold

All artists are now free to express their own personality. ↗

— Maurice Denis

#express #free #now #own #personality

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#apparatus #beauty #bodies #dance #dependence

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. ↗

— Andrew Denton

#common #pressure #psyche #stress

They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world's great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible. ↗

— John Doerr

#drawings #expressions #family #found #gain