#invents

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. ↗

— Robert Browning

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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is. ↗

— Victor Cousin

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Mankind invents things to fight about. ↗

— Mike Love

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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. ↗

— Jean Arp

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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary. ↗

— Harold Bloom

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People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others. ↗

— John le Carre

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