“The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.” MenMadeDesireBoysStudyPlansHe ManIndependenceCarefulInventionInequalityDesirableAcquisitionPupilsAdopting Author:William Godwin
“The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.” MenWayArtMadeHe ManSonLettersInvention Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
“Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself.” MenWellsMayFactsHandsInterestingWrittenStyleHe ManInventionImmortalityEmployedPosterityPledgeWell WrittenInteresting Fact Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
“The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process - a process based not on synthesis but on selection. The difference was a basic one. Paintings were made - constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes - but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.” MenMadeProcessDifferencesAttitudeTakenStreetsHe ManPaintingSkillsPhotographyPhotographInventionTraditionalSchemesSelectionSynthesis Author:John Szarkowski