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. . . proportions in artistic
form, especially
in musical form, do not coincide with arithmetical ones. We observe, on
the contrary, that mathematical symmetry is rather apt to render form stiff
and dead, and that, indeed, it is the barely perceptible irregularities
which infuse life into artistic form. To be sure, it takes the subtlety
and refinement of the accomplished artist to sense the appropriate places
and quotas of the irregular.
Ernst Toch
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