„Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.“
— Richard Franck German composer 1858 - 1938
Northern Memoirs, written in 1658 and published in 1694 along with another work by Franck, The Contemplative and Practical Angler
„Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.“
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan2
britský politik 1751 - 1816Podobné citáty
„Mothers are the necessity of invention.“
— Bill Watterson American comic artist 1958
„Necessity, the mother of invention.“
— William Wycherley English dramatist of the Restoration period 1640 - 1716
Love in a Wood (1671), Act III, scene 3. (This was already a common proverb before Wycherley, cf. Invention, Necessity.)
„Necessity, the mother of invention.“
— George Farquhar Irish dramatist 1677 - 1707
The Twin Rivals (1702), Act i. Compare: "Necessity is the mother of invention", Wycherly, Love in a Wood (1672), act iii. sc. 3.; "Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention", Richard Franck, Northern Memoirs (written in 1658, printed in 1694); "Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter" (translated: "Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention"), Persius, Prolog., line 10.
„Necessity is the mother of invention.“
— Platón, The Republic
Commonly misattributed due to Benjamin Jowett's popular idiomatic translation (1871) of Plato's Republic, Book II, 369c as "The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention." Jowett's translation is noted for injecting flowery, if not florid, language familiar to his Victorian era audience. (See "Note on the Translation", by Elizabeth Watson Scharffenberger, ed., in Republic (2005), Spark Educational Publishing, ISBN 1593080972, p. liii http://books.google.com/books?id=9FLdTCiaI_MC&pg=PR53.) Jowett himself, in Plato's Republic: The Greek Text, Vol. III "Notes", 1894, p. 82, gives a literal translation of Plato as "our need will be the real creator," without the proverbial flourish. The Greek text is: ποιήσει δὲ αὐτήν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ἡ ἡμετέρα χρεία. Perseus.tufts.edu http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0167%3Abook%3D2%3Asection%3D369c
Misattributed
„Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.“
— William Shenstone English gardener 1714 - 1763
"Detached Thoughts : On Writing and Books", p. 129
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
„Invention is the mother of all necessities.“
— Marshall McLuhan Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communicatio… 1911 - 1980
1970s, The argument: causality in the electric world (1973)
„Necessity is the mother of all invention.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
„My parents wrote their own rules, so it didn’t seem odd to me to invent my life as I went along.“
As quoted in the "Greta Gaines" profile page at Artist Direct http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/greta-gaines/702133
Kontext: My parents wrote their own rules, so it didn’t seem odd to me to invent my life as I went along. … I picked up a guitar and started writing songs late, when I was 22, but quickly became devoted to the craft of song writing, relieved that I had found my inner calling.
„[H]ere and now, as always and everywhere, invention is the mother of necessity.“
— Thorstein Veblen American academic 1857 - 1929
Veblen (1914) "The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts". p. 314
— Octavio Paz Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature 1914 - 1998
Alternating Current (1967)
„Art is the proper task of life.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
„Talking is a necessity, listening is an art.“
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer, artist, and politician 1749 - 1832
Reden ist uns ein Bedürfnis, Zuhören ist eine Kunst.
According to http://falschzitate.blogspot.de/2017/04/reden-ist-uns-ein-bedurfnis-zuhoren-ist.html pure invention.
Misattributed
„Unfortunately Sting's jazz work isn't nearly as inventive as his rock songs.“
— Andrew Sega musician from America 1975
Static Line interview, 1998
„The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented.“
— Novalis, kniha Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 114
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Kontext: The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!
„Any idealism is a proper subject for art.“
— Lafcadio Hearn writer 1850 - 1904
Zdroj: Out of the East, Books and Habits, p. 22.
„Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.“
— William Zinsser writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor 1922 - 2015
Zdroj: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 12, Writing About Yourself: The Memoir, p. 99.
