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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

Robert Fitzgerald

Guitar

Invention

Songs

Tradition

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

Tim Finn

Life

Invention

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Jared Diamond

Invention

Loss

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Marc Davis

Animation

Invention

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Doug Coupland

Forget

Invention

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.