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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.

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.

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.

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

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 So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Necessity, the mother of invention.

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

Necessity, mother of invention.

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

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

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

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

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.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

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

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.