Quotes by Patterns Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience. Alfred North Whitehead recognitionpatternsart Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead recognitionpatternsart Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne. Alice Childress patternsafrican-americanunique Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. Alice Childress snowflakepatternseducational It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought. Alice Childress patternscreative Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness. Alice Munro patternssidespot You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern. Alison Lurie patternsfithurt In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit. Alton Tobey patternsdevelopmentprofound Perceiving how things are is a mode of exploring how things appear. How they appear is, however, an aspect of how they are. To explore appearance is thus to explore the environment, the world. To discover how things are, from how they appear, is to discover an order or pattern in their appearance. The process of perceiving, of finding out how things are, is a process of meeting the world; it is an activity of skillful exploration. Alva Noe patternsorderworld Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives. Amalia Kahana-Carmon patternsstructuremay The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us. Anais Nin patternsfavorssociety Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. Anais Nin patternssufferingself We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns. Andrei Tarkovsky observingpatternsforgotten Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality. Andrew Cuomo patternsweatherreality For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. Ann Druyan stormpatternsspirit You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern. Ann Macbeth patternsdirectorsworld All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Anne Carson patternstwomean There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. Anne Hathaway desperatepatternspeople There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby. Anne Rice hotel-lobbypatternslaughing as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow. Anne Rice patternslosing-someonewater«1234567891011»
