Art Quote by Semen Frank

“The development of science and of the creative activities of the spirit requires a freedom that consists in the independence of thought from the…

— Albert Einstein

“The society with lots of open disagreement and social conflict is the one surging with power in art, science, commerce, constructive social reform, and…

— Greg Forster

“The history of ideas, then, is the discipline of beginnings and ends, the description of obscure continuities and returns, the reconstitution of developments in…

— Michel Foucault

We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events…

— Michel Foucault

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with…

— Max Planck

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.”

— Amaya Ellman

“Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come…

— David duChemin

“We've learned too well to become good theoreticians, but have not learned to be good practitioners of what we preach. When ideas from books…

— Cristina Metzli Tzintzun

“It is in the ardent revolutionist to whom the joys of art, of science, even of family life, seem bitter, so long as they…

— Peter Kropotkin

“we are continuing God’s work of forming, filling, and subduing. Whenever we bring order out of chaos, whenever we draw out creative potential, whenever…

— Timothy Keller