There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
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After eleven years I was composing Love-letters again, broaching the word 'wife' Like a stored cask,
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What I so like about Poussin and Cezanne is their sense of organization. Ilike the way in which they develop space and shape in architecturalcontinuity - the rhythm across their paintings. When I paint a landscape, Iget the greatest pleasure out of composing it. As I paint, I try to work outa visual sonata form or a fugue, with realistic images.
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Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.
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The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.
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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the rememb...
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I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?
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I know of no studies so composing as those of the classical scholar. When we have sat down to them, life seems as still and serene as if it we...
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There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first
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