Quote by China Miéville Download Open image ““Art Nouveau was coil-envy.”” — China Miéville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you’ve owned something in your life to which you ascribed particular pleasure. A treasured toy, perhaps. Some photographs. The steel skull of your… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.” — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I had to admit, my little Accord hadn't looked all that great next to the Benzes and Rolls in that garage to begin with,… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
“... the ads made me feel bilious and love-stricken, invaded and debauched by a coldly mechanical lust for whatever fetish the desire machines were… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“During the summer he’d wear my oil smeared undershirts to give me inspiration, although it usually had the opposite effect, and then the only… — Nicole Castle Copy Share Image
“You are a legend. Your self-invention matters. You are the artist of your own life.” — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches and even romance.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Ciro, who loved machinery and its design, thought the tanks were ugly. What beauty could be found in something that was created with the… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely .” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
