Clark Coolidge quotes

Clark Coolidge quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.”
-- Clark Coolidge

#Quality Quotes #Density Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.”
“All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.”
“I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly.”
“This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.”
“The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.”
“The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city, Tokyo must be used more efficiently and the population density increased.”
“Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.”

Source : 'The Origins of the Second World War' (1961) ch. 10
“Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.”
“Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.”
“Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.”

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