People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies. — Lady Hester Stanhope Copy Share Image
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not…All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
When you're playing a spirit from another dimension, you really can do anything and get as abstract as you want and still… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures…… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't… — Lucien Smith Copy Share Image
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art. — Keaton Stromberg Copy Share Image
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface. — Robert Ryman Copy Share Image
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. — Clive James Copy Share Image
