Quotes About Progression

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

Art history is always changing too.

I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act".

Yesterday's happenings are the reasons of Today's situation.

Wars] can come in different shapes and guises, but always wars come in increments. I am convinced there are steps, and that once these events are set in motion, they are virtually impossible to reverse. There were other steps in the country's stumble toward war, and I remember these days clearly now. But again, at the time I did not recognize these days as such, not as steps but as days like any others.

People move up here pretty reliably, and as you know we hire almost exclusively from within.

Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working. —Anonymous

In fact, something always leads to something else.

something always leads to something else.

rooms one by one until they came to the stairs.

Something always leads to something else. - John Puller

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It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Once artificial intelligence matches our own, won't they then design even better ai minds? Then better still, with accelerating pace? At worst, might they decide (as in many cheap dramas), to eliminate their irksome masters? At best, won't we suffer the shame of being nostalgically tolerated? Like senile grandparents or beloved childhood pets?

Julie has told Faye that she believes lovers go through three different stages in getting really to know one another. First they exchange anecdotes and inclinations. Then each tells the other what she believes. Then each observes the relation between what the other says she believes and what she in fact does.