A lie stands on one leg, the truth on two.
Max Ernst, Writings on Art, there simply is no single "right thing."
Max Ernst, Writings on Art, there simply is no single "right thing."
Michael P. Lynch
Dare to be wrong, or you may never be right.
J. Michael Bishop, Nobel prize lecture (1989) and "How to Win the Nobel Prize" (2003)
Mistakes are not a sign of failure, they picture creative energy. Mistakes are made by those who do new things.
Quantum aesthetics : We can never know precisely at a given moment all properties of an artwork.
The new theme was: Art must be a quest for truth, however brutal, and not a quest for beauty. So the question became: What is the truth of art?
Stephen Hicks, in "Why art became ugly"
According to the postmodern view that there is no absolute truth, a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on.
P. Mondrian, "Towards the True Vision of Reality", in d.m.a. 2. Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art, p.15, (N.Y., 1951).
Sometimes the mainstream viewpoint becomes so ingrained in our iconic imagery and collective scientific consciousness that alternatives go unheeded.