Reproduction Quotes - Page 8

• Gah, some chicks should be shot. Put out of everyone else's reproduction pool.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pool, Should, Shots

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.229, Delacorte Press

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• Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Soul, Religion

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.40, Princeton University Press

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• If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Soul, Veils

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• Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all. Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all. Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all. It is thoroughly believable that every organ or apparatus that we actually see is the product of a smooth trajectory through animal space, a trajectory in which every intermediate stage assisted survival and reproduction.

  Richard Dawkins

  Science, Animal, Space

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Sex, Loss, Science

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• The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Long Ago, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.

  James Morcan

  Eugenics, Race, Blue

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• You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. Given the history of
  society's efforts to control women's sexuality and reproduction, this
  remained a revolutionary idea. No wonder it disturbed and frightened
  some people so deeply.

  Stephen Singular

  Men, Ideas, People

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• By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

  David Platt

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.207, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Language, Ancient, Modern

  Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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• War to me is very much like sex. You can develop a theory that says sex is primarily for the exchange of genetic material, or that it's a celebration of life, or you can make up 50,000 theories about why human beings have sex, all of which are in some sense true, all of which by themselves miss the point. Because the answer is extraordinarily complex. It may be for fun, it may be for reproduction, for financial reasons, any number of things.

  George Friedman

  Sex, Fun, War

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Photography itself is most frequently nothing but the reproduction of the image that a group produces of its own integration.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Photography, Groups, Produce

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• There is something abominable about cameras, because they possess the power to invent many worlds. As an artist who has been lost in this wilderness of mechanical reproduction for many years, I do not know which world to start with. I have seen fellow artists driven to the point of frenzy by photography.

  Robert Smithson

  Photography, Artist, Years

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.371, Univ of California Press

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• So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

  Stanley Cavell

  Photography, Long, Wish

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• To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines operating at one thousand horsepower - only photography is capable of that. What those who are attached to the painterly style regard as photography's defect, the mechanical reproduction of form - is just what makes it superior to all other means of expression.

  Albert Renger-Patzsch

  Photography, Mean, Technology

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• There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.

  Albert Renger-Patzsch

  Joy, Technique, Needs

  Albert Renger-Patzsch, Donald Burton Kuspit, J. Paul Getty Museum (1993). “Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object”, Getty Publications

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• The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Fighting, Order, Organization

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• Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.

  Fady Joudah

  Labels, Machines, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think women are deeply interested in a conversation around fertility. It's not a conversation just for one age group of women, a conversation if you're post 30 or post 35. This [is] conversation about reproduction, about taking your own power with you and deciding for yourself.

  Staceyann Chin

  Thinking, Age, Groups

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people - but very few photographers can make their prints not only reproductions of the people taken, but a comment upon them - or more, a comment upon their lives - or more still, a comment upon the social order that creates these lives.

  Langston Hughes

  Taken, Order, Cities

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.141, University of Missouri Press

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• In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wise, Art, Prayer

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• I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Technique, Multiple

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• ... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about those institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let's say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.

  Walter Benjamin

  Simple, Reality, Yield

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• The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Lying, Men

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• [The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

  Andre Bazin

  Becoming, Virtue, Photograph

  André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

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