Confused Quote by Igor Stravinsky

We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of…

— Igor Stravinsky

we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater…

— Richard Blackmore

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market,…

— Reginald Fessenden

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

— Diane Arbus

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least…

— Jimi Hendrix

“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was easy for…

— Vernor Vinge

I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes…

— Carl Mitcham

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

— Benjamin Franklin