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If politicians would think more they would act less.

George Savile, 1St Marquess Of Halifax / English Statesman
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If politicians would think more they would act less.

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The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax English Statesman

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax English Statesman

Being wise doth either make men our friends or discourage them from being our enemies.

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax English Statesman

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

George Savile, 1st Marquess Of Halifax English Statesman

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

G. H. Hardy Mathematician

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

Philip Guston Painter

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Professor

I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.

Federico Fellini Film Director

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.

John Cale Musician

I don’t trust painting. At least not in New York. Most painting here relies on formula and repetition, whoring itself to the market. There seems to be no risk and once a painter gets a strategy, very little exploration. As a result, I stopped thinking about painting a long time ago. I prefer forms of art that are more market-resistant, more idea-based, more - for lack of a better word - risky.

Kenneth Goldsmith Poet

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