Best 375 quotes in «invention quotes» category

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs.

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate trades that were more difficult or even impossible by barter alone.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

Necessity, mother of invention.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.

Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me.