#invent

There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention. ↗

— Bill Pullman

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If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#around #business #consciously #going #reinvent

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing. ↗

— Duane Michals

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Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#combination #come #deposited #gathered #images

I invent nothing, I rediscover. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

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I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another. ↗

— John M. Smith

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It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

#act #clarity #dare #extreme #future

Children reinvent your world for you. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#our world #reinvent #world #you #your

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent. ↗

— Paul Simon

#i #interested #invent #more #than

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. ↗

— Simone Weil

#god #invented #life #life is a #parable