Reproduction Quotes

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

Nature, Art, Through

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
Martin Luther

Great, God, Him

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
Christopher Hitchens

Women, Children, Give

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.
Jerry Saltz

Time, Money, Everything

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Music, Played, Mechanics

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
Benito Mussolini

Off, Fate, Felt

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford

Power, Art, Living

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.
Robert Nozick

Through, Able, Social

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Give, Why

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Mortimer Adler

Union, Creation, Image

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux

Life, Poetry, Flower

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
Jean Baudrillard

Real, Give, Possible

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
Leon Kass

Two, Child, Cloning

Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.
Paul Nurse

Life, Nature, Important

Also, since art is a vehicle for the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced. Anyone who understands the work of art owns it. We all own the Mona Lisa.
Sol LeWitt

Work, Art, Through

I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.
Jennifer Weiner

Money, Days, Interested

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.
Jennifer Weiner

Money, Sad, Bad

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature.
David Brin

Nature, Fun, Sexy

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Man Ray

Human, Desire, Create

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
Kate Millett

Life, Women, Great

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Alfred de Vigny

Life, Imitation, Arts

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.
Billy West

Love, Happen, Vocal

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.
Lennart Nilsson

Nature, Human, Mean

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.
Brigitte Boisselier

Time, Technology, Effect

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.
George C. Williams

General, Rule, Passed

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.
David Tudor

Idea, Unique, Voice

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