Relation Quotes - Page 36

• If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Bridges, Different, Division

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• Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.

  Philip Guston

  Moving, Light, Lucky Day

  Magdalena Dabrowski, Philip Guston (1988). “The drawings of Philip Guston”

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• I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

  Childe Hassam

  Interesting, Waiting, Groups

  Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, Jordan-Volpe Gallery (1994). “Childe Hassam: American impressionist”, Te Neues Pub Group

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• Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Country, Russia, Japan

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• Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.

  Herbert Read

  Order, Ideas, Mind

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

  Aslan Maskhadov

  War, Moscow, Eras

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• I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Perception, Body, Speak

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.173, Routledge

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• It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are the most important things in the study of painting. They are the fundamentals of all painting.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Simple, Long, Important

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• We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Talking, Cognition

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in certain cultures this process has been the normal relation between images and words.

  Asger Jorn

  Inspire, Important, Normal

  Letter to anthropologist Francis Huxley, 1970.

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• Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!

  Walter J. Phillips

  Photography, Blue, Sky

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• When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Suffering, Vitality, Doe

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• What is... disturbing to me is that many of these pro-Israeli lawmakers sit on the House International Relations Committee despite the obvious conflict of interest that their emotional attachments to Israel cause... The Israeli occupation of all territories must end, including Congress.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Emotional, Israel, Attachment

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• A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man.

  Charles Boyer

  Italian, Men, Break Off

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• Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Sarcastic, Real, Book

  Andrei Codrescu (1989). “Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Character, Balance

  'Correspondance de Napolèon Ier' vol. 17 (1865) no.14276 'Observations sur les affaires d'Espagne, Saint- Cloud, 27 août 1808'

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• Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well.

  Arthur W. Page

  Country, Art, Freedom

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• Foreign relations is an open book-- generally a checkbook.

  Will Rogers

  Book, Political, Open Book

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• What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Teacher, Art, Humble

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• We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Rivers, Important

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in a way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains as to wilderness, as that which declares that the world was made especially for the uses of men. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged.

  John Muir

  Nature, Men, Animal

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• Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.

  Robert Toombs

  Government, Agents, Common

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• Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

  Mark Hopkins

  Men, Want, Affection

  Mark Hopkins (1853). “A Discourse Commemorative of Amos Lawrence: Delivered by Request of the Students, in the Chapel of Williams College, February 21, 1853”, p.31

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• The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Men, Feet

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Attitude, Play

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.51, Penguin Books India

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