Charles Augustin de Coulomb Quotes

Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

In Brazil, when you say you're going to be an artist you always get that point of view that this is a crazy career and you might not make it. In my case, it kind of happened.

Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.

In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Knowledge was meant to be shared.

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]