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It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

Ben Shahn
affair painting shapes
Form is the shape of content. by Ben Shahn

Form is the shape of content.

Ben Shahn
form shapes
Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some... by Benjamin Franklin

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

Benjamin Franklin
shapes believe world
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can thin... by Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

Benjamin Lee Whorf
communication shapes thinking

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

Benoit Mandelbrot
lines shapes special

Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.

Benoit Mandelbrot
shapes self dull

The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.

Benoit Mandelbrot
chaos shapes strong

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Benoit Mandelbrot
lines shapes looks
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close... by Benoit Mandelbrot

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

Benoit Mandelbrot
far-away shapes would-be

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

Benoit Mandelbrot
lines circles shapes

I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

Benoit Mandelbrot
shapes half two

I don't know what being a 48-year-old feels like. There are a lot of 48 year olds that aren't in good shape. The pharmacy is making a killing off of them.

Bernard Hopkins
shapes killing years

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

Bertrand de Jouvenel
patterns democracy shapes

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

Bertrand Russell
shapes atheist world
Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the o... by Beryl Markham

Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.

Beryl Markham
shapes different change

The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what's really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.

Beth Ditto
shapes important missing
We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape. by Beth Ditto

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

Beth Ditto
certain shapes ideas

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis
rewards experience shapes

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

Bill Bruford
best-practices gigs shapes

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

Bill Condon
dramatic shapes thinking
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