quotes about Trimming

last updated: November 28, 2023

Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
-- Edouard Manet

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Colour is a creative element, not a trimming.
-- Piet Zwart

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“I got a ill gift, I'm real swift They be like, 'Damn, he's still rich.' When I send my Men in Black, Listen, none of them ***** named Will Smith.”
“Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.”
“What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.”
“There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.”
“During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible.”
“Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!”
“Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.”

Source : Brian Herbert (2003). “Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert”, p.389, Macmillan
“If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.”
“I get sentimental over the music of the â€™90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as Iâ€™m concerned the â€™90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.”

Source : Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.7, Crown Archetype
“The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of mystery. They appear to betray some hidden intelligence which by a preconceived plan produces the impression of intentional design, a phenomenon which finds its close analogue in nature.”