“Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.” MenEndsWaterWalksPoorHe ManDrinkSkillsFootstepsStale Book:Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain Source: Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain
“The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.” MenWellsDoeEndsDoneCarePleasurePowerfulHe ManKingsHeroSkillsMost PowerfulDogmaMonumentBuilderAscentMagnificenceGaiety Book:The Ascent of Man Source: The Ascent of Man
“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