"The war brought out all the art in me."

-- Horace Pippin

#Art Quotes #War Quotes

“Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.”
“Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an inquisitive urge. By noticing relationships in the results of his observations, he attempts to order and to explain the infinite variety of phenomena that at first sight may appear to be chaotic. In the history of civilization this type of progressive scientist has been characterized by Prometheus stealing the heavenly fire, by Adam eating from the tree of knowledge, by the Faustian ache for wisdom.”

Source : "The Scientific Character of Geology". The Journal of Geology, Vol. 69, No. 4, p. 454, July 1961.
“Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.”
“When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.”
“Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.”

Source : Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.”
“There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.”
“Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die.”

Source : William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1870). “Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers: And Other Poems”, p.171

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