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Fragments Quotes

New things had to be made out of fragments.

Kurt Schwitters, Werner Schmalenbach, Kate Traumann Steinitz, California. University, Los Angeles. Art Galleries (1965). “Kurt Schwitters: retrospective : March-April 1965”

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.231, Broadview Press

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Pincus-Witten, Hirschl & Adler Galleries (1986). “Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986”, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Incorporated

…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.84, e-artnow

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.131, Hamilton Books

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.442, Vintage