“URGENT SUBTLE CONCISE ROBUST”
Words cited by Hughes as written by Freud on a wall in his studio.
Lucian Freud: Paintings (1987), p. 22
Lucian Freud : Paintings (1987)
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British painter and engraver 1922–2011Related quotes
Quote by Georges Jeanniot, Jan. 1882 - written after visiting Manet's studio; as quoted in 'The Importance of Manet's Conceptualization in 'Olympia' and 'The Bar at the Folies-Bergère' http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/manet/arthistory_manet.html, by Charles Moffat, on 'The Art History Archive', c. 2001
Manet kept on working during Jeanniot's visit; he was painting 'The Bar at the Folies-Bergère' https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Edouard_Manet%2C_A_Bar_at_the_Folies-Berg%C3%A8re.jpg
1876 - 1883
“Concise and coherent is not the same as “simple and obvious.””
Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 2, “Just a Theory: What Scientists Do” (p. 26)
“For the robust, an error is information.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 72
“There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.”
Source: Beyond Apollo (1972), Chapter 16
“Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system”
Source: Daemon (2006), Chapter 31: Red Queen Hypothesis, Character: Sobol
Context: Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system—much less a brain—the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.
“Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 29
“Truth has not such an urgent air.”
La vérité n'a point cet air impétueux.
Canto I, l. 198
The Art of Poetry (1674)
“In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours.”
Letter to John Jay Chapman (5 April 1897)
1890s
Context: In my individual heart I fully believe my faith is as robust as yours. The trouble with your robust and full bodied faiths, however, is, that they begin to cut each others throats too soon, and for getting on in the world and establishing a modus vivendi these pestilential refinements and reasonablenesses and moderations have to creep in.
as quoted by John Freely, Before Gaileo: The Birth of Modern Science in Medieval Europe (2012)