To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Presley brought an excitement to singing, in part because rock and roll was greeted as his invention, but for other reasons not… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“In the end, everyone looses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
“Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another… — Vija Celmins Copy Share Image
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
