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• An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Effort, Mastery

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• The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

  Langston Hughes

  Rhythm Of Life, Jazz, Life Is

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.32, University of Missouri Press

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• The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Routine, Natural

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of Spring.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  "Seasons Endings and Beginnings" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.

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• The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Song, Horse, Cowboy

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• If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Events, Reason

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• Organic'... means that the work is an extension of your blood and body: it has the rhythm of nature. There exists a state of feeling that when you reach it, when you hit it, you can't go wrong. The work carries a body rhythm. You can't do the slick... the gimmicky or dishonest.

  Nell Blaine

  Mean, Blood, Feelings

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• When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

  Steve Winwood

  Heart, Night, Poetry

  Song: Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?

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• So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

  Thomas Hardy

  Sky, Flux, Persist

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Works of Hardy”, p.328, 谷月社

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• A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.

  Italo Calvino

  Feelings, Intuition, Ephemeral

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

  George Crumb

  Wind, Water, Bird

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• Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

  Fritz Lang

  Giving, Directors, Captains

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a... You know.

  Ike Turner

  Rocks, Names, White

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• And blessed are they who have learned the rhythms of the invisible clock whose hours and minutes are immense and soundless. The great clock of the seasons and the years, and the small clock of the intuition, whose timing is guided by the heart.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Time, Blessed, Heart

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• If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

  Wayne Muller

  Cancer, Heart, Pneumonia

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.20, Bantam

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• Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture.

  Rudolf von Laban

  Dance, Appreciation, Art

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• That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

  Philip Guston

  Mean, Kind, Canvas

  "Transcript of a public forum at Boston university', conducted by Joseph Ablow 1966". "Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics" by Clifford Ross, p. 67, 1990.

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• All God's Chillun got Rhythm.

  Gus Kahn

  Music

  "Song: "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"". 1937.

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• I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  People, Feelings, Love Feeling

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.55, Melville House

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• Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old notebook in which I'd written, 'Touch, timing and timbre... keys to the heart.' That just about says it all.

  James Nares

  Notebook, Heart, Keys

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• Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Spring, Reality

  "Hans Hofmann". Book by James Yohe, 2000.

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• Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Dance, Tunes

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from May 06, 2015

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• The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Running, Night

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.

  Deepak Chopra

  Aging, Entropy, Reverse

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• I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Despair, Dames, Phrases

  ""It's Time for a Change"". Interview with Cortney Pellettieri, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 4, 2012.

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