Conception Quotes

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

The Republicans have long had a platform of being pro-life. And I'm someone that believes life begins at conception and should be protected.

Immaculate conception is the only way another kid is coming out of me!

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.