Methodology Quotes - Page 2

• Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

  Paul Cezanne

  Perspective, Sides, Spheres

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• International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Views, Goal, Fearless

  Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

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• Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

  Murray Rothbard

  Sound, Principles, Subjectivism

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• One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Engineering, Example, Pests

  "Debating The Potential Danger Of Transgenic Weeds". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.

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• This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

  Donald Cram

  Inspirational, Funny, Careers

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• Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

  Matt Cameron

  Guitar, Sound, Locks

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• I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Motivational, Looks, Asking

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• When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Disappointment, Writing, Loss

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.437, W. W. Norton & Company

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• No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

  Ron Parker

  Matter, Painting, Mediums

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• The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.

  Glenn Gould

  Void, Doe, Forget

  "Glenn Gould Reader". Book by Glenn Gould, p. 5, 1984.

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• The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging or scrubbing. The colour stays where it is put.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Disturbed, Admirable, Colour

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• A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Men, Imagination

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• The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Principles, Copies

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I use 'The Rig,' my feet are firmly anchored. I lower myself horizontally just long enough to make a brush stroke - a matter of seconds - and then I'm upright again. My assistant then erases the painting quickly with a squeegee and I go for it again... until I get it right. It's like trying to hit a home run.

  James Nares

  Running, Home, Feet

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• For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.

  David Travis

  Photography, Artist, Creative

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• Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

  Robert Genn

  Trying, Bees, Here And There

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• Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... making itself, the image taking hold. This in turn moves me toward painting - anxious to get to the same place, with the actuality of paint and light.

  Philip Guston

  Moving, Light, Lucky Day

  Magdalena Dabrowski, Philip Guston (1988). “The drawings of Philip Guston”

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• A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Passion, Desire

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• I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.

  Frank Auerbach

  Thinking, Trying, Dots

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• I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

  Nell Blaine

  Trying, Canvas, Force

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• I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Painting, Effects, Improving

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• Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

  Barry Diller

  Creative, Different, Internet

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• As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Technique, Process

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.50, CUP Archive

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• A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Artist, Views, People

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• Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.

  Joel Spolsky

  People, Levels, Way

  "Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef". Personal Website, www.joelonsoftware.com. January 18, 2001.

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