Structure Quotes

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We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future. — William J. Clinton
I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and… — May Sarton
Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising. — Vincent Van Gogh
Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the… — Marc Chagall
With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic… — Gail Sheehy
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is… — Charles Darwin
While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression… — Lewis Mumford
Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions? — Hippocrates
Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible. — Jean Piaget
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no… — Robert Motherwell
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal,… — Robert Motherwell
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or… — Rudolf Arnheim
It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking. — Wilhelm Reich
Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through… — Mary Parker Follett
Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film history and film… — Zoe Kazan
Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some… — Philip Guston
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the… — Barbara Hepworth
The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine. — Jeff Koons
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he… — Kazimir Malevich

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