#intervals

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. ↗

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

#companions #family #go #himself #his

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#color #counterpoint #creating #differentiate #formal

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ↗

— Robert Frost

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At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes. ↗

— James Mooney

#begun #between #dancers #down #especially

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#balance #designed #environment #intervals #long

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#contrary #eccentric #govern #impulses #intervals

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#improve #intervals #other #running #speed

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#horrible #i #insane #intervals #long