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• Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Painting, Pigment

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• Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Journey, Discovery

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• Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until these all coalesce into a marvellous kind of rhythm that reveals the life of the painting.

  Leland Bell

  Home, Trying, Pushing

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• Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Past, Rivers, Water

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• Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.

  Lyonel Feininger

  Mean, Expression, Mind

  1917 Letter to Paul Westheim, quoted in Wolf-Dieter Dube The Expressionists (1972).

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• There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

  Bjork

  Mind, Half, Body

  "Björk: what inspires me" by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. May 03, 2012.

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• Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Night, Breathing, Faithful

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1969). “Ada: or, Ardor, a family chronicle”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

  Cecil Taylor

  Space

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• Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Personality, Pieces, Tone

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• Come back to the heartbeat, the pulse, the rhythm we all walk to, regardless of nation or color. Come back to the breath - inhale, take the world deep into your lungs; exhale, give yourself back fully. This is what the body says: release the peace that lives within your skin.

  Gayle Brandeis

  Heart, Color, Giving

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• Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

  Patty Griffin

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Dream, Lying, Fate

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• Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.

  Michael Jackson

  Wise, Moving, Heart

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• The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

  W. H. Auden

  Music, Beautiful, Simple

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• Music creates order out of chaos.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Order, Continuity Of Life

  "Symboles Dans la Vie Et Dans L'art". Book by George Whalley, p. 29, 1987.

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• Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

  Josiah Royce

  Order, Musical, Phrases

  Josiah Royce, John Joseph McDermott, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (2005). “The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce: Culture, philosophy, and religion”, p.633, Fordham Univ Press

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• Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

  Tom Robbins

  Pages, Ifs

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• There is a natural rhythm to the active and receptive energies within us. At times our energy is strong and outgoing - it is time to pursue our goals, take risks, get things accomplished. At other times, our energy is quiet and sensitive, and we need to take time to nurture ourselves, relax, and just 'be' for a while. As we trust and follow this rhythm, we attract everything we need and create everything we truly desire.

  Shakti Gawain

  Strong, Goal, Risk

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• The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

  Charles Dickens

  Ocean, Shore, Asks

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• Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Two, Black, Hints

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1969-1974”

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• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

  Bruce Barton

  Change, Fear, Errors

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• Rhythm must have meaning.

  Ezra Pound

  Ezra Pound (1950). “The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

  Tom Robbins

  Moon, Civilization, Natural

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.13, Bantam

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• The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.

  Bruno Walter

  Spiritual, Domain

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• A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.

  Esther Freud

  Writing, Missing, Magic

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Esther Freud, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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