Mitchell Feigenbaum famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.
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Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.
-- Mitchell Feigenbaum
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The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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The search is more important than the destination
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Let's blow some stuff up.
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