Principles Quotes

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I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the… — Joan Baez
One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important. — Dieter Rams
Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles. — Thomas Sowell
The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal. — Auguste Rodin
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. — Frank Herbert
Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do… — Immanuel Kant
God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love. — Mary Baker Eddy
It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the… — Sogyal Rinpoche
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be… — Ken Blanchard
Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should follow our Conscience. — Sathya Sai Baba
Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed. — Francis Picabia
I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone… — Gustave Courbet
The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose. — Rudolf Arnheim
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
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more… — Joshua Reynolds
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of… — Joshua Reynolds
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. — John Foster Dulles
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot… — Eugene Delacroix
The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs. — Robert Schumann

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