Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.
I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.
Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.
There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.
The Universal Declaration. . . as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations. . . it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
The thing about running is, if I run in the morning before work, I feel like I'm ahead of the day. Whatever work I've done in terms of preparation or research or thinking about the scene or the character, it all kind of crystallizes in that moment in the morning. And sometimes I have the best ideas then.
In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age. . . who fixes his time in history.
