Art Quote by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

— Alexander Pope

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to…

— Victor Hugo

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

— Carl Sagan

Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea...…

— Richard Rhodes

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday…

— Elizabeth Charles

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

— Albert Einstein

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced…

— Charles Babbage

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs,…

— Robert Hormats

One must be an inventor to read well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with…

— James Dyson

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

— Anonymous

“When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good…

— Carl Sagan