Roughness is an essential structural feature without which a thing cannot be whole; it is not a residue of technically inferior culture or hand-craft inaccuracy

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• Roughness can never be consciously or deliberately created; to make a thing live, its roughness must be the product of egolessness, the product of no willclaim0.827
  Claim that genuine roughness comes from abandon and freedom, not from contrived effort to appear interesting; artificial roughness is merely contrived
• Roughnessconcept0.791
  The property that living things have a certain ease and morphological roughness which is an essential structural feature, not an accident; the seemingly rough arrangement is more precise because it comes from careful guarding of essential centers, requiring egolessness and abandon
• Roughness arises inevitably when a regular order is forced into three-dimensional constraints, producing adaptive irregularities like those in corn cobs, crystal dislocations, and radiolarian shells.claim0.774
• The rough humanity visible in these pictures, is no less modern than the titanium struts, glass, plastic sheets, and shimmering homogeneous facades we presently think of as modern.claim0.761
  Redefining 'modern' to include the kindlier morphology of living processes.
• The intricate and context-specific adaptation that shapes every detail differently is a necessary structural feature of all life.claim0.742
  Foundational claim about the necessity of adaptation for life in structures.
• Their actual roughness, and the visible soft morphological character they have because of this roughness, are of the essence of the fact that they are living.claim0.739
  Asserts that roughness is an essential quality of living structure, not merely a sketch artifact.
• Color variation (roughness) brings color to life by preventing flatness; the interaction of slightly different hues creates a shimmering unity.claim0.738
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.737
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.