Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles and Sophocles, if Raphael and Shakespeare had known them, should not have appeared to them as mere preliminary exercises for their own work, but rather as a kindred force of the spirit, so, too reason cannot find in its own earlier forms mere useful preliminary exercises for itself.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Geoff Downes

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

Geoff Mulgan

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

Garrett Hedlund

I'd mortgage any house for art.

Garrett Hardin

Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

Garry Marshall

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

Garry Kasparov

The technical phase can be boring because there is little opportunity for creavivity, for art. Boredom leads to complacency and mistakes.

Garry Kasparov

With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.

Garry Kasparov

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

Garry Kasparov

Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance

Garry Kasparov

Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined and improved by experience.

Garry Kasparov

...comparing the capacity of computers to the capacity of the human brain, I've often wondered, where does our success come from? The answer is synthesis, the ability to combine creativity and calculation, art and science, into whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts.

Garry Kasparov

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

Garry Kasparov

The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.

Garrison Keillor

I think there's a lot of power in listening to one person talking to you. And this should never be underestimated.One person sitting and talking to you and, you're pulled in, in ways that technology and art and all cannot.

Garrison Keillor

To Norwegians, the polka is a form of martial art.

Garrison Keillor

Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.

Garrison Keillor

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

Garrison Keillor

You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so important to you when you were young-is not of great importance. We're simply a conduit. We take things out of the air into us and put them in the form of stories. That's pretty much it.

Gabrielle Roy

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

Gabriela Mistral

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,

Francois Fenelon

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Frank Lloyd Wright

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.