#venti

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#break #conventions #isolation #necessary #nice

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#enjoy #enjoys #fiction #gene #invention

I think the two greatest inventions in the history of mankind are the remote control and the fingernail clipper. Now, if someone could just combine those two, I’d be very eager to clip my nails from across the room. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #invention #surreal #funny

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

#artists #creativity #imagination #inventiveness #originality

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#convention #humor #art

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#interested #invention #just #more #mozart

I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need - inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#computer #down #easy #find #fun

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#cares #conventional #conventional wisdom #either #football

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ↗

— Al Gore

#about #all night #because #been #day

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#also #any #artisan #been #capital