Aesthetic Quote by Ernst Haas

“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can…

— Richard Howells

Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory works. It's…

— Steve Martin

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

— Maurice de Vlaminck

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations…

— Chinua Achebe

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

— Nan Goldin

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

— Hosea Ballou

The best theory is inspired by practice.

— Donald Knuth

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to…

— Terence McKenna

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

— Michael Crichton

I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down…

— D. H. Lawrence

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are…

— Charles Caleb Colton