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Benjamin Haydon: The only legitimate...

Benjamin Haydon: The only legitimate...

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Source: Correspondence...

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Diane Arbus: A photograph is...

Diane Arbus: A photograph is...

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

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Edward Steichen: Photography is a...

Edward Steichen: Photography is a...

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Source: In Time, 7 Apr...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativity varies inversely...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativity varies inversely...

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Source:...

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Leo Burnett: To swear off...

Leo Burnett: To swear off...

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having...

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Norman Augustine: Bulls do not...

Norman Augustine: Bulls do not...

Bulls do not win bull fights.
People do.
People do not win people fights.
Lawyers...

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Henri Matisse: Drawing is like...

Henri Matisse: Drawing is like...

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

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Wyndham Lewis: I feel most...

Wyndham Lewis: I feel most...

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no...

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Robert Motherwell: It may be...

Robert Motherwell: It may be...

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

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Charles A Lindbergh: If I had...

Charles A Lindbergh: If I had...

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

Source: Recalled on...

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Alexander Fleming: It is the...

Alexander Fleming: It is the...

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime...

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Orlando A Battista: You have reached...

Orlando A Battista: You have reached...

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or...

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Charles Kettering: People are very...

Charles Kettering: People are very...

People are very open-minded about new things -- as long as they're exactly like the old...

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Alexander Graham Bell: Great discoveries and...

Alexander Graham Bell: Great discoveries and...

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

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Henri Poincare: Invention consists in...

Henri Poincare: Invention consists in...

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations...

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Blaise Pascal: Things are always...

Blaise Pascal: Things are always...

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

Source: Lettres...

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: [W]e must believe...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: [W]e must believe...

[W]e must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence,...

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Luther Burbank: The lure of...

Luther Burbank: The lure of...

The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we...

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Sir Walter Raleigh: The world is...

Sir Walter Raleigh: The world is...

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

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Alexis Carrel: Science has to...

Alexis Carrel: Science has to...

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not...

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