John Locke Quotes About Art
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The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
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Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.
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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
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Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.
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That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
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