Books Quote by Louis Leakey Download Open image “The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.” — Louis Leakey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Done Knows Want
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal. — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
“I have enormous respect for the reader. They are able to take symbols from a page that an author has invented, and turn them… — Lynette Willows Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.” — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
![“The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations.” quote by Lewis Mumford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c8b/lewis-mumford-2870_art_the-artist-does-not-illustrate-science-b_2165273.jpg)
