The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which miraculously it seems merge into a significant event.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

If conquerors be regarded as the engine drivers of History then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who less conspicuous to the travelers eye determine the direction of the journey.

The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through mans history is the beating of war drums.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

The most persistent sound, which reverberates through men's history, is the beating of war drums.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.