Arthur Mattuck famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto.
-- Arthur Mattuck

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Non-linear means it's hard to solve.
-- Arthur Mattuck

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All theorems have three names: a French name, a German name, and a Russian name, each nationality having claimed to discover it first. Once in a while there's an English name, too, but it's always Newton.
-- Arthur Mattuck

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While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
To me documentary photography means making a picture so that the viewer doesnâ€™t think about the man who made the picture. At its esthetic core is very old tradition in art: naturalism. And its purpose is to document all facets of social relationships.
Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.
A Satanist practices the motto, If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other! Let no wrong go unredressed.
Say no to death pies. Another good motto.
Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Arthur Mattuck famous quotes

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