Methodology Quotes

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

Methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

The methodologies are always different but the message should be the same.

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Methodology is applied ideology.

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging or scrubbing. The colour stays where it is put.

As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

The tonal leads the way. You have to have a methodology.

Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.

Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.

I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be applied, hence becomes methodology without a hitch, but isn't necessarily practical at all.

Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process.

There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.