"It is the stress that holds the structure up."

-- P. K. Page

#Stress Quotes #Structure Quotes

“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain.”
“In the New World, you'll kick your own ***** and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own wife. And vise versa. That'll be normal in the New World - different from the Old World, where everyone except me is to blame for my ignorance and you call on everyone except yourself to give you what you need. I'll push my own buttons and right my own wrongs. You'll wake yourself up and sing your won songs.”
“I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.”
“Crib death was so infrequent in the pre-vaccination era that it was not even mentioned in the statistics, but it started to climb in the 1950s with the spread of mass vaccination against diseases of childhood.”
“The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.”

Source : Naum Gabo (2000). “Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews”
“If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as MoliÃ¨re, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable.”
“there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.”
“And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: â€˜A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.â€™ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.”

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