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“The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.”

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Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“It should not be forgotten that art is not a science where the latest 'correct' theory declares the old to be false and erases it.”

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Book:Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

Source: Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art

“Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.”

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Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.”

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Book:Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

“Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.”

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Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

“...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)”

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Author:Milan Kundera

“This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.”

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Author:Edward Gorey