Louis Comfort Tiffany famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

  • The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

  • That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

  • When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

  • Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

  • Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

  • Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

  • When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

  • Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

  • Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

  • It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot