Simple Idea

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or idea:

“A Bartas can do what a Bartas will
But simple I according to my skill.”
—Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)

“Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.”
—Henry Fuseli (1741–1825)