#mentation

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#collects #combination #combines #experimentation #facts

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#fragmentation #meant #ownership #private #private ownership

Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#feature #happen #idea #instrumentation #particular

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#course #fragmentation #our #systems #their

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#form #function #human-body #humans #ornamentation

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#closer #creates #fragmentation #healthy #helps

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#drawing #experimentation #far #first #had

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had. ↗

— Kathleen Hanna

#band #bikini #called #documentation #fear

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cultural #documentation #glorification #human #human spirit

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#between #each #film #given #hopefully