1 - "Proportion depends less upon equality of parts than upon that agreement among them that is determined by their relation to a whole"
2 - "If the storms break for him, May the trees shake for him, Their blossoms down . . . . "
3 - The Voyage - "How fresh was every sight and sound
On open main or winding shore! . . . . "
4 - "If there is no change at all in the shape or size of the objects, there is no continuity."
5 - ". . . . different systems of science, different forms of art, religion, and social organization, were the different forms taken by man's effort to live wisely and well, that is, in harmony with himself and his environment"
6 - ". . . . but that which is only living can only die. Words, after speech, reach into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, can words or music reach the stillness, as a Chinese jar still moves perpetually in its stillness."
7 - "A guideline is a protection against the arbitrary . . . . a spiritual appeasement that leads to a search for ingenious and harmonious relations."
VOLUME TWO
Focus / Content
Painting
The Colors . . . . The Substance of the paint, blending . . . . The illusion
Participation
"If the staged towers of Mugheir, Tello and Abu Shahrein, are too much destroyed for us to be able to restore their different steps except in thought . . . . "
Graphics
The impression of an ancient leaf - of happenstance - sometimes cast in stone.
Contemporary
". . . . Thus both--the earth seen from above in an eternal now and the Earth that endures in a recovered time--may serve as material for poetry"
Objectives
Objectives may be temporary steps or may develop over time. This is not without vigilance, resolution or justification. In time, there may be many outcomes.
VOLUME THREE
Context
[Meaning / Understanding]
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