“If rhythmicity has to do with a "demand for something to come,” such as a demand for reciprocities from someone, rhythm must be more than the perception of an order in movement… “The essence of rhythm,” according to Langer, “is the preparation of a new event by the ending of a previous one”
(Langer 1953:126 in You 1994)
“…rhythm is a universal scheme of existence” and thus a common interest in rhythm “holds science and art in kinship”
(Dewey 1989:154 in You 1994)
“Time simultaneously measures, and is measured.”
“Everywhere there is interaction between a place, a time and an expenditure of energy, there is rhythm”
“This idea of rhythm encompasses the series of permutations required to turn a collection into a system”
“It is unlikely “that visual anthropology will be worthy of serious consideration as anthropology as long as it confines itself to illustrative uses of film, or tries to translate anthropological concepts into images, or grafts models of television journalism on to anthropological subjects.””
“‘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 grey gap between black beats: the Tender Interval. The regular throb itself merely brings back the miserable idea of measurement, but in between, something like true Time lurks.’”
“‘A metronome, like a clock, inscribed an artificial division into equal segments upon an otherwise undifferentiated movement; rhythm, by contrast, is intrinsic to the movement itself.’”
“…Style ‘never quite gets there’, it ‘never stays’. It is ‘always in contest, in motion, unresolved, discursive, in process’.”
“The paradox of modern landscapes is that they are dehumanising because they are excessively humanised. There is almost nothing in them that has not been conceived and planned so that it will serve those human needs which can be assessed in terms of efficiency or improved material conditions. But there is almost nothing in them that can happen spontaneously, autonomously or accidentally, or which expresses human emotions and feelings.”
“A trunk never turns into a crocodile, no matter how long it stays in the water”
“It depends on those who pass by whether I be tomb or treasure, whether I speak or am silent depends entirely on you friend, do not enter without desire.”