“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.” WorldShouldWellsLooksShowsRealityImaginationInformationProduceTaughtPaintingProfessionPainterComparisonPoeticAnxious Book:Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)
“At a tender age, I commandeered half a quire of foolscap from my father's desk and sat down to write a book. ...I had observed onprinted fly leaves the words "By the author of, etc." ...So under the title of my prospective work I wrote: By the author of "Les Miserables," "The Woman in White," "Dombey and Son," "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Our Life in the Highlands," the last-named being an opus of good Queen Victoria. I had not read all these works but they existed on our bookshelves, and I hoped to produce something worthy of comparison.” WritingBookAgeLastsFatherWhiteHalfOur LivesProduceSonAmbitionWorthyTitlesQueensSatBrownEtcComparisonTomsDesksVictoriaBookshelves Author:Rheta Childe Dorr
“Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.” HumansTodayFightingLinesCompanyProduceIntellectualCompetitionBottomSuperiorsDependentComparisonContinuingBottom LineMembershipOutput Author:Arie de Geus
“Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.” MenMindParentLevelsProduceIgnoranceFellowsSlaveryWoodsObservationComparisonDominationBarbarismAbhorrenceTenants Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams
“Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion; it produces it in all things that are capable of agreement and differences in any way at all, whether substantially or accidentally.” WayDifferencesNumbersProduceCapableConsequenceAll ThingsProportionComparisonAgreementQuantity Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“I believe Picasso's success is just one small part of the broader modern phenomenon of artists themselves rejecting serious art- perhaps partly because serious art takes so much time and energy and talent to produce-in favor of what I call `impulse art': art work that is quick and easy, at least by comparison.” BelieveArtArtistEnergyI BelieveEasyModernTalentProduceSeriousFavorsImpulseJust OneComparisonPhenomenonRejectingSmall PartsTime And Energy Author:Marilyn vos Savant