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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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Experience,

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Alfred North Whitehead
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Category: Experience

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I ask you to pray for me for once age has overtaken us we find consolation only in religion.
  • 2. Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
  • 3. Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age but they die young.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
  • 2. There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40 they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything you're even more amazing!
  • 3. Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

3 Anger

  • 1. Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas is a glaring injustice which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.
  • 2. I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger revenge or frustration.
  • 3. You can survive with anger but you can't live with it forever.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 2. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 3. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

5 Architecture

  • 1. If I have a style I am not aware of it.
  • 2. One of my favorite vacation places is Miami because of the people the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
  • 3. Architecture is the learned game correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light.
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