Irregularity Quotes

• Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Order, Perfection

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• El secreto de la fealdad no consiste en la irregularidad, sino en carecer de interés.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny Relationship, Secret Love, Being Nice

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.476, Рипол Классик

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• One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Perfection, Principles, Artistic

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• It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drinking, People, Care

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.60, Atlântico Press

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• La irregularidad y la falta de método sólo se sostienen en hombres de gran erudición o genio, que a menudo están demasiado llenos para ser exactos y, por lo tanto, eligen arrojar sus perlas en montones ante el lector, en lugar de tomarse el trabajo de ensartarlas.

  Joseph Addison

  Dolor, Aprendizaje, Hombres

  Joseph Addison (1839). "Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste", p.135

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• It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Drinking, Recovery

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.104, Broadview Press

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• Estoy convencido de que, como organismo, debemos celebrar un debate formal y legítimo sobre las irregularidades electorales.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Body, Election, Debate

  "Countdown" con Keith Oldermann, www.nbcnews.com. 7 de enero de 2005.

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• Una nube está formada por ondas y ondas y ondas que parecen nubes. A medida que te acercas a una nube no obtienes algo liso, sino irregularidades a menor escala.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Clouds, Looks, Smooth

  "Una teoría de la rugosidad". Entrevista en The Edge, www.edge.org. 20 de diciembre de 2004.

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• Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

  Aleister Crowley

  Facts, Horror, Guilty

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• Desterrar la imperfección es destruir la expresión, frenar el esfuerzo, paralizar la vitalidad.

  John Ruskin

  Expresión, Imperfección, Vitalidad

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). "El genio de John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings", p.184, University of Virginia Press

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• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Two, Quality, Fundamentals

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.26, Wesleyan University Press

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• Todas las cosas son literalmente mejores, más amables y más queridas por las imperfecciones que han sido divinamente designadas, para que la ley de la vida humana sea esfuerzo, y la ley del juicio humano, misericordia.

  John Ruskin

  Vida, Error, Errores

  John Ruskin (1867). "Las piedras de Venecia", p.171

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• Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Science, Order, Facts

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• Lo que no está ligeramente distorsionado carece de atractivo sensible; de donde se deduce que la irregularidad, es decir, lo inesperado, la sorpresa y el asombro, son parte esencial y característica de la belleza.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Essentials, Astonishment, Unexpected

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

  Catherine Taylor

  Trying, Looks, Unexpected

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• No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

  John Ruskin

  Happiness, Expression, Law

  John Ruskin (1900). “The Stones of Venice (Complete)”, p.763, Library of Alexandria

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• En todas las cosas que viven hay ciertas irregularidades y deficiencias que no sólo son signos de vida, sino fuentes de belleza. Ningún rostro humano es exactamente igual en sus líneas a cada lado, ninguna hoja perfecta en sus lóbulos, ninguna rama en su simetría.

  John Ruskin

  Belleza, Perfecta, Ramas

  John Ruskin (1854). "Sobre la naturaleza de la arquitectura gótica: y aquí de las verdaderas funciones del obrero en el arte. Siendo la mayor parte del 6º capítulo del 2º vol. de 'Piedras de Venecia'. [48 p.]", p.14

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• La conciencia es la brújula del hombre, y aunque la aguja a veces se desvíe, aunque a menudo uno perciba irregularidades al dirigir su rumbo por ella, aun así uno debe tratar de seguir su dirección.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Trying, Sometimes

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). "Las cartas de Vincent Van Gogh a su hermano, 1872-1886: Con una memoria de su cuñada, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ..."

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• There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Criminals, Morality

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• The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Taste, Occasions, Our Lives

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.158

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• One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have to meet the irregularities of the wind, when soaring in the air, can only be learnt by being in the air itself. . . . The only way which leads us to a quick development in human flight is a systematic and energetic practice in actual flying experiments.

  Otto Lilienthal

  Air, Wind, Practice

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• Debemos cultivar y defender la particularidad, la individualidad y la vida irregular. El ser humano no tiene futuro en el colectivismo de los estados burocráticos ni en la sociedad de masas creada por el capitalismo. Todo sistema, tanto por su carácter abstracto como por su pretensión de totalidad, es enemigo de la vida. Como dijo con melancólica agudeza un olvidado poeta español, José Moreno Villa "He descubierto en la simetría la raíz de mucha iniquidad".

  Octavio Paz

  Vida, raíces, individualidad

  Octavio Paz (1987). "1904-1912", San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Book, Rivers, Ill Health

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

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• To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly.

  Tom Peters

  Success, Real, Creativity

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• Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

  Joshua Foer

  Knights, Language, Century

  "Utopian for Beginners" by Joshua Foer, www.newyorker.com. December 24&31, 2012.

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