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In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.

Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.

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Matisse self-portrait wholeness
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Four drawings of Matisse's face with different features share the same underlying wholeness, demonstrating that character is a global structure.

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The wholeness is a real structure, something geometrically concrete, not merely a general appreciation for unity.claim0.834
Assertion that wholeness is a tangible spatial structure.
It is, above all, the light and relation to movement and relation to the whole which give quality and character to a room.quote0.808
Summarizes the three primary determinants of room life.
An injection of new structure into a place can either respect and enhance the existing wholeness or violate and destroy it; this is an objective structural fact, not merely aesthetic preference.claim0.808
Alexander's assertion that judgments about whether interventions preserve wholeness are structural and mathematical rather than subjective or romantic.
Taking architecture seriously leads us to the proper treatment of tiny details, to an understanding of the unfolding whole, and to an understanding – mystical in part – of the entity that underpins that wholeness.concept0.806
It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.806
Love as the driving force of living creation.
"The true landscape of architecture is the landscape of people nourished, satisfied, living a full life, being happy, a landscape that shows that happiness derived from the surroundings."quote0.804
A central statement of the chapter: the judgment of architecture rests on its actual performance in nourishing the human spirit.
The unity is not merely a unity in the surface, in the appearance of things — it is a unity of the most fundamental kind, which goes to the raw reality and which has, when it occurs, a highly unexpected, sometimes rambling, sometimes ferocious, sometimes friendly, even sometimes absurdly crude or comfortable character.claim0.803
True unity is not about conventional beauty but about a raw, messy, everyday reality that resonates deeply.
The totality, a complex of rectilinear and curvilinear, level upon level of scale, arises naturally from unfolding and paying attention to the whole.claim0.801