Quotes of: Right-idea Keyword

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-exis...

Jerry Saltz

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

Jerry Saltz

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

Rafael Moneo

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.

Susan Davis

I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment?

Theaster Gates

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Assassin's Quest

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

He had never looked at me before, never, and the idea made my skin burn.

Attachments

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

The House of Mirth

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

The Idiot

We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.

The Idiot

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Ideas and Opinions

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

The Illuminati Papers

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose