#strain

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#i #me #more #ought #ponder

...we see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose - it makes me laugh... ↗

— John Geddes

#free-spirited #restraints #art

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. ↗

— Jonah Lehrer

#creativity #imagination #limitations #imagination

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. ↗

— Albert Camus

#dies #freedom #imposes #itself #lives