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In the ship painting, the wholeness generated the details; details were created only to recreate the living wholeness and its light.

Description of the author's painting process as a microcosm of a living process.

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Life
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Alexander's broad sense of 'life' as a quality present in waves, fire, and other systems beyond biological creatures; a degree or quality that systems possess.

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Each step in a living process enhances the whole.
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Core thesis of the chapter: all action in a living process aims at increasing the beauty, life, and coherence of the whole.

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Chapter 9: **The Whole
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This chapter argues that every step in a living process must enhance the whole, using examples from drawing, zoning, St. Mark's Square, canyon design, and painting.

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The painting became realistic not by mechanical copying but because it was generated from the real life of the wholeness.claim0.851
Key claim about the source of realism in art.
In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.797
Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
A painting is a succession of blobs that connect up and finally compose the subject, each blob a center of life.claim0.785
Bonnard's description of his own work, interpreted as aligning with the beings model.
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.claim0.784
Love as the driving force of living creation.
Matisse's painting process is exactly the kind of step-by-step adaptation with feedback: each brushstroke is a response to the actual emerging painting, making it continuously better.claim0.776
The Matisse film as an exemplar of living process in art.
In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.775
Connection between process, attention, and love.
A building, or a building detail, or a painting, is, to some degree or other, spirit.claim0.775
The claim that made things are actual realizations of spirit, in their material substance.
People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.claim0.775