"Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius."

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#Genius Quotes #Craftsman Quotes

“Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer! List, ye landsmen all, to me; Messmates, hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.”
“After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.”
“As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.”
“In great quantity, madame. In great quantity.”
“Very early in my life it was too late.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.4, Pantheon
“Live performance has always been my thing. Itâ€™s my purpose to master and capture the moment every time I have you connected.”
“Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.”

Source : Molly Keane (1981). “Good behaviour”
“We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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