Colin McGinn Quotes

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

Colin McGinn

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• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
  • Body

• My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
  • Art
  • She

• The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Time
  • Art
  • Moment

• Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Out
  • Computing

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Done
  • Art
  • Help

• Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Real
  • Technology
  • Language

• Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Live
  • Pretty

• Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Memory
  • Prison
  • Remarkable

• As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Work
  • Great
  • Believe

• If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son's skill.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Technology
  • Son
  • Financial

• Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Creativity

• For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Important
  • Art

• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Art
  • Moments
  • Quality

• He had not remembered her name, but he had seen her dance - had been carried away and fascinated by the supreme art that can make you forget art.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Art
  • Dance

• One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Words
  • Perfect

• As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Done
  • Art
  • Giving

• Objects too at times, after all, like the landscape, held the potential for meaning- she took out the first object now- and were able to comfort.

  

  Amanda Coplin
  • Meaning
  • Landscape
  • Objects

• I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Ability
  • Office

• Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Society
  • Commitment

• I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Mind
  • Bored

• Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

  

  Colin McGinn
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Brain