To make a lifelike animal, we have to make the animal out of centers. If the centers are good centers, then the animal starts to get life.

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• The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.855
  Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.
• Good shape is built up from the simplest elementary figures; what seem like complex centers are made of simpler centers which are also alive, and these simpler centers give the complex ones their lifeclaim0.796
  Claim that even apparently organic or floral designs derive their life from geometrically simple components (triangles, rhombuses, hexagons) that allow complex cross-relationships
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.793
  A key insight about position and context.
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.789
• Centers which have life increase our own life because we ourselves are centers too; we feel more wholesome in the presence of things which have wholesomeness in themclaim0.789
  Describes a resonance mechanism between living centers in the world and the center that is the human self
• Just make it nice at every spot, and life enters the structure.claim0.788
  Practical maxim from teaching: attending to each spot's wonderfulness is the core of living design.
• Centers themselves have life.claim0.785
  One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.784
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.