Mechanical Quotes

325 quotes by 272 authors

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect… — Greg Iles
Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. — John Maeda
In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life… — Constantin Stanislavski
Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful. — Leonardo da Vinci
It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. — Oliver Evans
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization,… — Ralph Adams Cram
The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts.… — Mary Barnett Gilson
The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from PhÃ¦nomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the… — Isaac Newton
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For… — Ambrose Bierce
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Academies of Art are nothing but great painting factories - those with talent are fed in at one end, and they come out as… — Edvard Munch
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas. — Damien Hirst
Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle… — Joshua Reynolds
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time… — Nathaniel Branden
Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do,… — Rollo May
Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system -… — Graham Collier
I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is… — E. J. Hughes
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he… — Arnold Palmer
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter… — William Osler

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