"Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt."

-- Humayun Azad

#Spring Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I would have private conversations with [Buckminster Fuller]. I once had an argument, for four hours, about the existence of the Mobius strip. Because he believed in the Klein Bottle, you see. And I said, "How in hell can you claim to believe in the Klein Bottle and think that the Mobius strip is dubious?" He said, "Well, it's a torus." I don't know what he had in his mind as a mathematical background, because I don't think he got topology. Because, in other words, the Mobius strip didn't have angles in it.”
“All reading for pleasure is entertainment.”
“In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.”
“In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.”

Source : Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.198, Univ of California Press
“What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.”
“I never wish to be easily defined.”
“Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.”

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