Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 81 | "You see, however," he View more quotes about asked">asked, "how the depth of the planchet allows a relief and contrast of the design with the background to an extent impossible in a flat, milled coin?" "Yes," I said. |
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Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 78 | "Such coins were too precious perhaps," he said. |
| 1 | 79 | "A roll of them might be almost inconceivable, particularly in the sense of having many such rolls". |
| 1 | 80 | "What sort of coin is it?" I asked. |
| 1 | 81 | "You see, however," he asked, "how the depth of the planchet allows a relief and contrast of the design with the background to an extent impossible in a flat, milled coin?" "Yes," I said. |
| 1 | 82 | "What a superb latitude that gives the artist," he said. |
| 1 | 83 | "It frees him from the limitations of a crude compromise with the counting house, from the contemporary concessions which must be made to economic functionalism. |
| 1 | 84 | Even then, in so small and common an object, and in so unlikely an object, he can create a work of art". |
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"Such coins were too precious perhaps," he said.
"A roll of them might be almost inconceivable, particularly in the sense of having many such rolls".
"What sort of coin is it?" I asked.
"You see, however," he asked, "how the depth of the planchet allows a relief and contrast of the design with the background to an extent impossible in a flat, milled coin?" "Yes," I said.
"What a superb latitude that gives the artist," he said.
"It frees him from the limitations of a crude compromise with the counting house, from the contemporary concessions which must be made to economic functionalism.
Even then, in so small and common an object, and in so unlikely an object, he can create a work of art".
- (Kajira of Gor)