Modes
- Arabic Maqam
- Dastgah
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Famous quotes containing the word modes:
“Sight and all the other senses are only modes of touch.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In the final analysis, “style” is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)