Quotes About Knowledge

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

I had had no art training.

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

I have a strong art-history background.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.

In art, progress lies not in an extension, but in a knowledge of limitations.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

[Phil Wood] knew about wine. He knew about food. He knew about art. He knew about classical music. He was interested in things.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

Science is the art of the solvable.

Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars.

In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.