Alfred Kinsey Quotes
Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
Quotes to Explore
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.
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When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs' clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.
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I love science fiction.
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Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.
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It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
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All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time, and I like it.
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I think that if I were in a satisfying marriage, I would probably choose monogamy, but I wouldn't want that to be a requirement.
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Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.
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When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a massive Chinese shawl around me from our fancy-dress box. I was obsessed with a feather and rabbit-fur collar from the age of three and attempted to make one with my friend, whose father was a gamekeeper.
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An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.
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Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
