A cauliflower shows how an object can be made of many parts, each of which is like a whole, but smaller. Many plants are like that. A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth but irregularities at a smaller scale.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.
James Montgomery
Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows,
Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To die is landing on some silent shore
Where billows never break, nor tempests roar;
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, ’t is o’er.Samuel Garth
Though such the darkness of my soul,
Not such the calmness there;
But waves of guilt tumultuous roll
'Midst billows of despair.Ann Eliza Bleecker
Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.
Whitney Chadwick
Mandelbrot, Benoit
Mandelson, Peter
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