Art Quote by Marcel Proust

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

— Marcel Proust

“In the past a theory could get by on its beauty; in the modern world a successful theory has to work for a living.”

— Howard Wainer

“That' the thing about theories. You can theorize all you want, but at the end of the day when you theories become reality, when…

— Jane Green

“Theory becomes realized among a people only in so far as it represents the realization of that people's needs.”

— Karl Marx

“Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a…

— Tony Kushner

“Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.”

— Tim Goossens

“This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain what will happen, even before you experience it.”

— Clayton M. Christensen

“But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.”

— Leslie Feinberg

“theory includes a transcendent idea, as do all great world narratives.”

— Neil Postman

“Let’s end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use.”

— Barbara Sher

“There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.”

— Paul Valery