Idea Quotes

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Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl… — Erich Fromm
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them… — Albert Bandura
An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its… — Mark Van Doren
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… — John Stuart Mill
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin
Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not… — Martin Heidegger
I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured.… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea… — Mark Rothko
When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is… — Sol LeWitt
Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the… — Sol LeWitt
Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This… — Vannevar Bush
I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to… — Claire McCaskill
I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition… — Paul Ryan
Chicken Little change my life when I was younger. I had no idea chickens could talk *laughs*. — Thom Yorke
People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's… — Robert Rauschenberg
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its… — Piet Mondrian
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms of idea the… — Sol LeWitt
What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter what… — Sol LeWitt
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. — Sol LeWitt
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art — Sol LeWitt
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work — Sol LeWitt
I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can… — Willem de Kooning
In art one idea is as good as another. — Willem de Kooning
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea… — Willem de Kooning
These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while… — Giorgio Vasari

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