In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If I play the melody, even if I play it in an abstract manner, it's instantly recognizable. Even when I was studying… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that… — Alexander Morozevich Copy Share Image
I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical… — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in… — Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Copy Share Image
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
“He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was… — Rainbow Rowell Eleanor and Park Copy Share Image
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of. — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas… the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact. — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
Mirzya' was an abstract musical. In the end, it was not a conventional film, so it cannot or is unlikely to get… — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is… — Pam Gems Copy Share Image
I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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