“I do think that a good pictorial idea is worth more than a lot of manual dexterity.”
Frank Stella (1936) American artist
Quote from: Frank Stella, William S. Rubin, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1970, p. 30
Quotes, 1960 - 1970
“The good is worth more than the best.”
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Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)
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Our America (1881)
Context: Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones.
There is no prow that can cut through a cloudbank of ideas. A powerful idea, waved before the world at the proper time, can stop a squadron of iron-clad ships, like the mystical flag of the Last judgement.
“Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1080 (1896) (Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Holmes dissenting).
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