quotes from masters
If I had 20 days to solve a problem, I would take 19 days to define it
New Jersey,
United States
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Chalcis,
Greece
Aristotle was Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He was the founnder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition. Along with his teacher Plato, he has been caleed the "Father of Western Philosophy”.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Deme Alopece,
Athens
Socrates was born circa 470 BC, in Athens, Greece. We know of his life through the writings of his students, including Plato and Xenophon. His “Socratic method,” laid the groundwork for Western systems of logic and philosophy. When the political climate of Greece turned, Socrates was sentenced to death by hemlock poisoning in 399 BC. He accepted this judgment rather than fleeing into exile.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Frankfurt,
German Confederation
Arthur Schopenhauer, whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having no divine origin and no historical end.
Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.
Mougins,
France
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture.
Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.
Ferlach, Austria
Helmut Schmid is one of the finest typographers worldwide. He waass apprenticed as a typesetter. He attended AGS Basel - Allgemeine Gewerbeschule (School of Design) studying under Emil Ruder, Kurt Hauert and Robert Büchler.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
German Empire
Nietzsche was a German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic. His writings on truth, morality, language, aesthetics, cultural theory, history, nihilism, power, consciousness, and the meaning of existence have exerted an enormous influence on Western philosophy and intellectual history.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Amboise, France
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, known Leonardo da Vinci, was an Italian polymath of these Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology and catography.
The soul never thinks without an image.
Chalcis,
Greece
Aristotle was Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He was the founnder of the Lyceum and the Peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition. Along with his teacher Plato, he has been caleed the "Father of Western Philosophy”.
No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.
Figueres,
Catalonia, Spain
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i domènech was surrealist artist. Dali was a skilled artist draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre imagees in his work. His painterly skills are often attribbuted to the influennce of Renaissance masters.