“The living world is not a single array. . . connected by unbroken series of intergrades.”
Genetics and the Origin of Species (1951) p. 4.
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
Source: The Great Gatsby
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Prevale
(1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Prima di mancare di rispetto ad una persona corretta, pensaci bene. Una persona corretta, tale gesto lo ricorda per tutta la vita.
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“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him”
Philip K. Dick
book
VALIS
VALIS (1981)
Context: For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.
Robert Woodhouse
(1773–1827) English mathematician
p, 125
A Treatise on Isoperimetrical Problems, and the Calculus of Variations (1810)
Helen Frankenthaler
(1928–2011) American artist
Quote in: 'An interview with Helen Frankenthaler', by Geldzahler, The New York school – the painters & sculptors of the fifties Irving Sandler, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978, p. 67
Frankenthaler explains the difference between gesture and signature in her painting
1970s - 1980s
“To be true, a succession of works can be but a series of approximations of the same thought.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Context: A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. Likewise, a man's sole creation is strengthened in its successive and multiple aspects: his works. One after another they complement one another, correct or overtake one another, contradict one another, too. If something brings creation to an end, it is not the victorious and illusory cry of the blinded artist: "I have said everything," but the death of the creator which closes his experiences and the book of his genius.
That effort, that superhuman consciousness are not necessarily apparent to the reader. There is no mystery in human creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret. To be true, a succession of works can be but a series of approximations of the same thought. But it is possible to conceive of another type of creator proceeding by juxtaposition. Their words may seem to be devoid of inter-relations, to a certain degree, they are contradictory. But viewed all together, they resume their natural grouping.
“The noblest gesture to do to a friend is to give him your smile.”
Prevale
(1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Il gesto più nobile da fare ad un amico, è donargli il tuo sorriso.
Source: prevale.net
