#conceive

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. ↗

— Plato

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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. ↗

— Herbert Read

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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

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Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish. ↗

— David Sarnoff

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He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own. ↗

— Richard Schickel

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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

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