The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.
I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually.
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.