"There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion."

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Order Quotes #Harmony Quotes #Proportion Quotes

“I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.”
“People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore.”

Source : Sarah McCoy (2012). “The Baker's Daughter: A Novel”, p.45, Broadway Books
“The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.”

Source : Henry Moore (1968). “Henry Spencer Moore”
“Sheâ€™s never where she is,' I said. 'Sheâ€™s only inside her head.”
“Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.”
“Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.”
“Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.”
“In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.”

Source : Christopher Alexander (1977). “A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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