#si

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#contemporaries #different #different ways #i #levels

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. ↗

— Clive Bell

#feeling #means #other #our #recognising

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas. ↗

— Chris Bell

#because #complaint #congressional #corruption #delay

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it. ↗

— Chris Bell

#beat #competition #i #no problem #out

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. ↗

— Clive Bell

#genius #inevitable #sign #uncreative #worship

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#art #creative #feeling #fitness #generality

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#also #becomes #lives #longer #mathematics

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#am #i #i am #myself #obsessive