André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Thinking
“Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it.”
The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach (1965), Penguin Books, translated by Anna Bostock.
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“In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.”
Josef Albers (1888–1976) German-American artist and educator
Quoted in: Faber Birren (1976) Color Perception in Art. p. 20
“Magic is the science and the art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.”
Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987), p. 15; this is a slight paraphrase of the definition of Aleister Crowley in Magick in Theory and Practice: Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.
“The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art.”
John Foster Dulles (1888–1959) United States Secretary of State
In [Stephen E. Ambrose, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition, https://books.google.com/books?id=5lzMtwXckcEC&pg=PT109, 2010, Penguin, 109]
“If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, to William Gerard Hamilton, to George Bernard Shaw, to John F. Kennedy (who at any rate quoted it) and to Edmund Burke, it was actually said by Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland in a speech in the House of Commons on 1641-11-22
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“If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Attributed to Edmund Burke, to William Gerard Hamilton, to George Bernard Shaw, to John F. Kennedy (who quoted it) and to Benjamin Disraeli, it was actually said by Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland in a speech in the House of Commons on 1641-11-22.
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“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
1920s, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)