#replace

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#element #essential #imagination #invention #replace

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#disturbing #elements #find #i #inevitable

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#another #anyone #bizarre #disappear #discovers

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas. ↗

— Alan Alda

#clear #freshness #hang #ideas #life

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#air conditioning #been #conditioning #god #over

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#age #begin #embrace #growth #improve

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#becomes #believe #care #come #curses

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#corruption #loss #me #money #only

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting. ↗

— Tina Brown

#essays #i #i love #kind #love

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other. ↗

— George Crumb

#interesting #music #occasionally #other #really