"Every artist dips his brush in his
own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"The real essence of work is concentrated energy."
Walter Begehot
"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in
the world."
Edmond de Goncourt
"That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing."
Doc Egerton
"Mysticality is the power of all true science."
Albert Einstein
"The release of atomic energy has
not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of
solving an existing one."
Albert Einstein
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how
to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not
beautiful, I know it is wrong."
R. Buckminster Fuller
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist
does the better."
Andre Gide
"It seems safe to say that
significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to
problems about which the thinker is lukewarm."
Mary Henle
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the
necessary may speak."
Hans Hoffman
"There's no right way of writing. There's only your way."
Milton Lomask
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything
else in the universe."
John Muir
"Matter is less material and the
mind less spiritual then generally supposed. The habitual separation of
physics and psychology, mind and matter, is metaphysically indefensible."
Bertrand Russell
"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
Carl Sagan
"The notes I handle no better
than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is
where the art resides."
Artur Schnabel
"Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution."
Edward Somers
"I always find that statistics are hard to follow and impossible to digest.
The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in
church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable."
Mrs. Robert A. Taft
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has
experienced."
Leo Tolstoy
"Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery
of the finger of God."
Herbert Westren Turnbull
"Life is a wave, which in no two
consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles."
John Tyndall
"I came to think that art is
exactly not what religion is, that it's not about absolutes and it has to do
with the condition of being human, which is not ever to be able to deal with
absolutes, that we deal in a world of doubts, a world of uncertainties, a
world of ironies."
Kirk Varnedoe
