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“In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.”

May Effort Originals Be Good Adequate Translations Reproduction Approximation

Book:The Life of Goethe

Source: The Life of Goethe

“The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it will almost certainly happen at least once. And for life as we know it, with its capacity for growth and reproduction, once may be enough.”

Knows May Important Enough Happens Given Sides Growth Steps Events Capacity Regard Categories Enough Time Reproduction Improbable Origin Of Life

Author:George Wald

“Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.”

Mean Made Together Race Class Feminist Practicals Racist Reproduction Castes Classism Class System Anti Racist Controlling Women

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.”

“Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children.”

“The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And coral-insects build their radiate shells... Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers live transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The same their manners, and the same their minds.”

Years Mind Kind Running Father Sex Lines Son Birth Passing Passings Manners Pregnant Shells Insects Reproduction Oysters Unchanging

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.”

Humans Feelings Sound Violence Speech Artistic Manifestation Shade Accurate Finest Exaggeration Reproduction Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

“If I seem detached or distant, it's because I think this is a more exact reproduction of life, where you hide as much as you show. When I see a scene in which feelings get loudly exteriorized, I say to myself, 'Well, at least this never happens to me.' I very rarely go through this type of expression. Most of the time things are hidden or at least much more subdued.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Shows Feelings Seems Happens Expression Type Scene Detached Reproduction

Author:Isabelle Huppert

“Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.”

Belief Psychological Reproduction Belief In God Artifacts

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.”

Men Want Should Kind Mean Children Stills Ideas Strong Nations Church Roles Workers Soldier Definitions Various Controlled Very Strong Patriarchy Reproduction Very Deep

Author:Gloria Steinem

“My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by reproduction, and more specifically by computer screen, like jpegs, but an RGB simulation of fluorescent will never fully accurately depict some colors. For example, our eyes are a lot more sophisticated than you might assume. You can feel a lot more going on on the surface of a canvas than you can on the surface of a screen.”

Feels Real Reason Might Eye Today Force My Own Example Color Computer Assuming Paint Surface Screens Sophisticated Canvas Reproduction Simulation Computer Screen

Author:Ryan McGinness

“A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature.”

Men Art Stories Able Involved Rose Tiny Execution Magnificent Artistry Reproduction Spray Whistler

Author:Sterling W Sill

“In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.”

“Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.”

Photography Transformation Reproduction

Author:Ernst Haas

“The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.”

Men Passion Imagination Produce Tasks Factors Disturbing Reproduction Disturbance Love Passion

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)

“There is an access to... people can now afford very high quality technology, where you can have a very good reproduction of a large picture on a large screen at home. People go out less. There's all kinds of reasons. I don't know that it's going to stay that way but, I think also, we've got to start making better movies.”

People Thinking Knows Way Home Quality Technology Very Good Screens Access Reproduction High Quality

Author:Ridley Scott

“I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.”

Ifs Giving Children Animal Feminist Cycles Reproduction

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.”

Thinking Trying Enough Political Percent Mad Active Preserves Thirty Voting Devoted Political Systems Reproduction Trying To Change

Author:Gloria Steinem

“... After it has been determined that the pathogenic organism is present in the animal body, and after it has been shown that the organism can reproduce in the body and be transmitted from one individual to another, the most important experiment remains to be done....to determine the conditions necessary for growth and reproduction of the microorganism.”

Has Beens Important Done Body Individual Growth Animal Conditions Remains Determine Determined Experiments Organisms Reproduction Microorganisms

Author:Robert Koch

“All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.”

Film Artist Sound Interest Perfect Objects Personality Photography Screens Interpretation Copies Makers Mediocrity Bores Discouraging Reproduction Refinement

Author:Jean Renoir

“There's no question at all that the population explosion will come to an end. The two basic choices are it'll come to an end because we control our reproduction, and in many areas we have started to do so, or we'll end up with a high death rate. You have to take a personal moral stand on this.”

Two Ends Choices Moral Areas Rate Population Explosions Reproduction Population Explosion

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.”

Years Mean Has Beens Lasts Feminine Devoted Passive Dominant Masculine Paradigm Reproduction Patriarchal Society Controlling Women

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees to flee predators. This shift made it necessary for the men to actively protect the women and their babies. Only as a result of this protection were women able to give birth in shorter intervals, perhaps once every two or three years. This meant that they could produce offspring about twice as frequently as apes. I would be willing to bet that this rapid reproduction is one of the reasons why we dominate the world today, and not the apes.”

“The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.”

“I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.”

Body Half Female Bills Fraud Reproduction Counterfeit

Author:Cher

“What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.”

“If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.”

Ifs Mean Care Regard Sexuality Medical Reproduction Medical Care Primacy

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction.”

Men Mean Said Quality Imagine Emotional Endure Blow Currents Productions Traditional Classic Unexpected Links Fewer Gravity Patriarchy Family Life Reproduction Consternation

Author:Lionel Tiger

“A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.”

Giving Numbers Healthy Incapable Homosexuality Seduction Metaphysical Reproduction Affirming Negation Life Affirming Healthy Society

Book:A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America

Source: A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America

“If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.”

Ifs Able House Millions Painting Screens Presidential Sunset Guests Airplane Portraits Stamps Renaissance Reproduction Skiers Painting A Picture

Author:Bill Gates

“Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and encourage more people to get out to museums and galleries.”

People Art Real Fine Increase Photograph Museums Reverence Diminish Exposure Gallery Fine Arts Reproduction

Author:Bill Gates

“A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.”

Values Interesting Objects Reproduction

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people - but very few photographers can make their prints not only reproductions of the people taken, but a comment upon them - or more, a comment upon their lives - or more still, a comment upon the social order that creates these lives.”

People Stills Bigs Order Social Walks Cities Taken Streets Thousand Photographer Photograph Print Comment Reproduction Social Order Big Cities

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.”

Believe Art I Believe Prayer Wise Heard Painting Art Is France Multitudes Worldly Domain Reproduction Messiah Present Day Credo This I Believe Avenging

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.”

Art Technique Multiple Exploits Silk Reproduction Screening

Author:Andy Warhol

“... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about those institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let's say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.”

Humans Doe Reality Simple Institutions Photograph Yield Factories Artificial Human Relations Reproduction Human Relationships

Author:Walter Benjamin

“The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.”

Men Way Doe Play Facts Lying Found Process Results Achieve Essentials Photography Solutions Illusion Wit Psychological Factors Transition Appetite Satisfying Reproduction Baroque

Author:Andre Bazin

“[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.”

Process Virtue Share Objects Becoming Models Photograph Reproduction

Book:What Is Cinema?

Source: What Is Cinema?

“Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.”

Groups Produce Photography Integration Reproduction

Author:Pierre Bourdieu

“A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.”

Hands Eye Care Ready Limits Sight Cameras Indifferent Cult Unlimited Lenses Reproduction Isms

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost in this wilderness of mechanical reproduction for many years, I do not know which world to start with. I have seen fellow artists driven to the point of frenzy by photography.”

Knows World Years Has Beens Artist Lost Photography Cameras Fellows Driven Wilderness Reproduction Frenzy

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.”

World Today Photography Method Instruments Extraordinary Reproduction

Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

“So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.”

World Way Humans Long Doe Lasts Wish This World Painting Photography Defeat Satisfied Painter Agents Isolation Manifest Metaphysical Confined Fidelity Reformation Reproduction Subjectivity

Author:Stanley Cavell

“Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.”

Photography Ordinary Reproduction Verge

Author:Stephen Shore

“Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for itself... Its power of exactly reproducing external reality, a power inherent in its technique, lends it a documentary character and makes it appear as the most faithful and impartial process for the reproduction of social life.”

Mean Character Reality Social Process Expression Civilization Photography Conscious Aim Technique Faithful Inherent Typical Documentaries Social Life Reproduction Technicians Reproducing

Author:Gisele Freund

“To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.”

“There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.”

Source: Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object

“The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.”

Order Fighting Brain Four Organization Architecture Visuals Organisms Feeding Profile Reproduction Facilitate Fleeing

Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.”

Way Machines Labels Dedicated Conservatism Consumed Reproduction Mirroring

Author:Fady Joudah

“I think women are deeply interested in a conversation around fertility. It's not a conversation just for one age group of women, a conversation if you're post 30 or post 35. This [is] conversation about reproduction, about taking your own power with you and deciding for yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Age Groups Conversation Posts Reproduction Fertility

Author:Staceyann Chin

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