Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination not invention is the supreme master of art as of life.

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Design in art is a recognition of the relation between various things various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it in the fourth dimension. That is with your blood and your bones as well as with your eyes.

Art is an invention of aesthetics which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Opera next to Gothic architecture is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

You look at the steamboat the railroad the car the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

When I write now I do not invent situation characters or actions but rather structures and discursive forms textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves as in architecture or the plastic arts.

Architecture is invention.

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content reinvent collaboration.

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end locked in your head alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

With 'Twilight ' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza ' we had an eight episode Dutch series that just for the pilot alone I condensed three episodes. So there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Invention is the talent of youth as judgment is of age.

Interest is the spur of the people but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth and judgment of age.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.