Top 12 Canon Quotes - Quoted Daily

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

Richard Neutra

Design, Architect, Canon

His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.

Johann Pachelbel

Pieces, Fame, Canon

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

Henry Louis Gates

Generations, Next, Canon

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.

Thorstein Veblen

Lines, Might, Canon

Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.89, M.E. Sharpe

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

Kehinde Wiley

Realization, Canon, Dissection

Source: www.aaa.si.edu

I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon.

Kate Zambreno

Thinking, Canon, Memoir

Source: therumpus.net

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

J. I. Packer

Church, Newton, Canon

J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

Reza Aslan

Biblical, Views, Canon

I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.

Peter Menzel

Canon, Equipment, Mediums

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.

Nelson Mandela

Fate, Misunderstood, Canon

Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

My husband and I have watched a lot of Hitchcock movies in bulk, and there's a lot to be gained from that, from focusing strictly on an artists canon.

Claire Danes

Husband, Artist, Canon

"Zac Efron and Claire Danes Interview ME AND ORSON WELLES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 24, 2009.