"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"Think anew." - Abraham Lincoln, as quoted by Captain Kirk
"Repetition is the death of art."
- Alfred North Whitehead
"I had followed Impressionism to the utmost limits and was forced to come to the conclusion that I could neither paint nor draw. I had reached a dead end."
- Pierre Auguste Renoir (Bruno Scheider's book, p. 68)
"Two roads diverged in a wood, And I ---
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference."
- Robert Frost
"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's."
- William Blake
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it;
I think an artist has always to be out of step
with his time." - Orson Welles
"Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer."
- Bertolt Brecht
"Art is not the truth, but a lie that allows us to approach
the truth" -- Picasso
"The majority is always wrong."
-Henrik Ibsen
"No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." - Heraclitus
"Cast your bread upon the waters,
for after many days you will find it again.'' - Ecclesiastes 11:1
"You cannot discover new oceans
unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." - stolen
"A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost
heart." - Robertson Davies
"I do not know what I may appear to the world;
but to myself I seem to have been only like a
boy playing on the seashore,
and diverting myself in now and then finding
a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered
before me."
- Isaac Newton
"In every revolution, there's one
man with a vision." - Captain Kirk, in "Mirror, Mirror"
"One should always be a little improbable."
- Oscar Wilde
"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation
for subtlety." - Isaac Asimov