#invention

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

#keep #line #never #retreat #wretched

Architecture is invention. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#invention

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#art #artist #chain #colors #continuous

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#nature

Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened. ↗

— Laurence Moore

#ethnic-group #how-it-happened #lds #mormon #mormonism

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. ↗

— Mose Allison

#concerned #essentials #far #i #improvisation

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#intuition #invention #observation #perceiving #reasoning

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace? ↗

— Thomas Day

#boast #distinguish #graces #inhabitants #inventions

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention. ↗

— Whitney M. Young

#create #invention #our #products #use

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#acute #arts #external #great #great talent