Art Quote by Marcel Proust Download Open image ““A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.”” — Marcel Proust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Writing
A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Theory becomes realized among a people only in so far as it represents the realization of that people's needs.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Theory is like a book. It's full of meaningless words, a few want to read it and where stays the movie.” — Tim Goossens Copy Share Image
“This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain what will happen, even before you experience it.” — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
“But if theory is not the crystallized resin of experience, it ceases to be a guide to action.” — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share Image
“theory includes a transcendent idea, as do all great world narratives.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Let’s end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use.” — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
“There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography.” — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“We betroth ourselves by proxy, and then feel obliged to marry the intermediary.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter’s fears, felt every time someone of her own age “disappeared” that she… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
