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A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.
He saw that it was the gaps that were important, the spaces between the threads which made the pattern, and not the threads themselves.
Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band.
Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never feels temporary or fixable. It has a shudder of the inevitable to it. The thought crosses your mind that when love goes it goes all at once, and forever.
and the frayed earth, crisscrossed like old bagasse, spring to a cushiony quilt of emerald grass, and who does sew and sow and patch the land?
These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness
unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.
What once was broken can be fixed.
Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.
It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again.
GOD CAN TURN A MESS INTO A MASTERPIECE!
So, with only finitely many different particle arrangements, the arrangements of particles within patches must be duplicated an infinite number of times. That's the result we've been after.
If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.
When something gets broken, it can be fixed.
Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let ... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.
There is a crack in everything
Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.
Got more patches on her than a pair of welfare overalls.
Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.
...Not an elegant tapestry but a serviceable quilt.
Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.
There is no patch for stupidity.
When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.
It took a lot of work to be perfect.
Long ago I learned that even the most inanimate things we know of - stone, iron columns, copper pipes, gravel roads, a piece of paper - won't last very long without attention and fixing and the loan of additional order. Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance. What
It had bred false camaraderies and drawn my attention to deep flaws and fault lines when what mattered
what matters so often in the course of everyday human life
were the surfaces and the joins.
I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.
No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on
I'll put all those cracked pieces back together and when they're ready, I'll glue them right, mould them to be strong again.
When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps.
I took the pieces you threw away, put them together by night and day. Washed by the rain. Dried by the sun. A million pieces all in one.
What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting, winds of change keep ripping away?
Two broken pieces making a whole.
Fix things before they get too big for fixing.
If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.
A big iron needle stitching the country together.
Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.
Perfect is no more 'Perfect', we use to mend it according to our requirements.
The only spot of comfort was the lingering impression of her fingertips through the fabric of his shirt, a reminder of the good side of having skin. He cultivated that square-inch patch, tilled and tended it into a full-body embrace.
With destruction comes renovation.
You may not divide the seamless coat of learning,
ON PROBLEMS
Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.
As the saying goes, 'you don't fix something if it isn't broken'
She made each suture perfectly - one neat stitch after another - until they were lined up across Archer's wounds like sharp black letters, as if every set of stitches was a healing word Doc had written to keep his skin together. There
Not everything has to be fixed.
But this first installation was by no means the last. Every year the Queen had some new fancy for beautifying her miniature kingdom with more highly artificial and more "natural" additions and alterations.
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars.
Two messed up halves that make one perfect whole?
An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
Swatches of color to close the wounds. Lines to tie it down. Layers upon layers, until the sound of their voices formed a hum.
I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.
Masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected
You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.
The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty ... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.
When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
We return to the places we're from; we trample faded corners and pencil in new lines.
staggered on together. A dark shape
However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light it can be shown.
a furtive groove
What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?
Ruins can be rebuilt.
Nature repairs her ravages,
repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
Band-aids don't fix bullet holes
The amelioration of jagged potencies is really the second center.
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
What seems true is that something in life, on the highways or in our hearts, is always being installed, or being repaired, or being torn down for the next installation.
You're crowding me. I need - room. ...
What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was proving I couldn't be trusted in Patch's presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet ... I wasn't.
New things had to be made out of fragments.
I don't want to fix you. I want to fix this.Fix-- Katja Millay
row of stitches.
Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge ... The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.
When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.
Life," said Simone St. James ... "is stitched together from a series of mistakes, some little, some big, like the patches on the clothes we wore growin' up, you know
Neaten the edges by zig-zagging. Do NOT zig-zag the seams
We were jigsawed, meant to fit together, making a whole picture.
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.
With thimble and thread And wax and hammer, and buckles and screws, And all such things as geniuses use; - Two bats for patterns, curious fellows! A charcoal-pot and a pair of bellows.
Writing a patch is the easiest part of open source. The truly hard stuff is all of the rest: bug trackers, mailing lists, documentation, and other management tasks.
I only laid the cobbles for the streets of Bordertown; it took all of us, an entire community, to bring the city to life. And that's as it should be. Community, friendship, art: stirred together, they make a powerful magic. Used wisely, it can save your life. I know that it saved mine.
This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out
Of dirt ... It is not possible for the moon
To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified ...
Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.
Chocolate Cherry Fixer-Uppers
PATCHES' OF AUTHORITY
Preteens Adhere, Teens Challenge, Hideout, Elderly Shun
Kamil Ali
Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together. And of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches. - How to make an American Quilt
Oh, I wish I could tell you I was a Mr. Fix-It, but I am not that kind of guy. I get frustrated so easily.
One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces ... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.
The gaps are part of the set, too," she'd said. "You can't replace them. I know how each piece was broken or lost. I broke a plate myself when I was nine. Now I'm an immortal part of the pattern. I'll take my gaps, thank you.
I like fixing things," he said as he worked. "The world is always breaking, here and there, this way and that. Fix a bit of it, and I feel like I'm helping.
As a kid, his favorite toy had been a snow globe, that held a small town of gingerbread buildings and peppermint streets. He'd wanted so badly to live there that one day he'd smashed the glass ball - only to find out that the houses were made of plaster, the candy stripes painted on.
Hee that repaires not a part, builds all.
Some things stay a little bit broken forever - even after they've been fixed.
The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes.
Their patch was a molecule with fangs under the words exite! chemicus sum! Which was Latin for, Back off, man! I'm a scientist!
We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.
A community of smashed up things and somehow everyone was willing to share the superglue
Every quilt has an intentional flaw because the only thing that's perfect is God.