Method Quotes

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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
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. — Ambrose Bierce
There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have… — Mark Twain
I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — William Blake
Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor… — Pablo Picasso
Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one… — Pablo Picasso
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice… — James Freeman Clarke
Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping… — Thomas Boswell
Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective… — Jean Cocteau
A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred… — Henri Matisse
I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of… — Andy Warhol
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. — William Godwin
And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot… — Terry Pratchett
The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different… — Neil Postman
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values"… — Thomas Sowell
Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at… — Michael Crichton
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin
But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should… — John Buchan

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