Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Quotes to Explore
-
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
-
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
-
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
-
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
-
As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
-
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
-
It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
-
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
-
My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.
-
When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
-
I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
-
I have very eclectic tastes.
-
I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
-
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
-
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
-
Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
-
Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
-
I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
-
I had just done a movie prior to 'Employee of the Month' called 'Let's Go to Prison' and Will Arnett got to play the bad guy. I would watch him daily and couldn't wait to get the chance 'til I played a bad guy.
-
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
-
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
-
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.
-
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money.
-
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
