Interesting

Famous quotes containing the word interesting:

“By the artist’s seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far as to say that the artist creates the object in that very moment by emphasizing its significant, characteristic, and interesting aspects or, rather, by adding the higher values.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

“In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor,—poor farmers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)