#necessity

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. ↗

— Man Ray

#create #creates #creation #desire #divine

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#chaos #civilization #desires #necessity #order

Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#necessity #poverty #smell #violence #inspirational

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#causation #cause-and-effect #chance #darwinism #inspirational

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#else #everything #first #guns #imperative

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. ↗

— John Betjeman

#like #luxury #many #me #modern

It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice. ↗

— Enrico Caruso

#constantly #forced #i #i remember #impressed

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. ↗

— Anthony Crosland

#luxury #necessity #next #sees

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#came #door #inclination #necessity #vice

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. ↗

— Max Eastman

#bears #caprice #chance #classic #modern