Conceive

Famous quotes containing the word conceive:

“It has always been difficult for Man to realise that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)

“I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head.... But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)