The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want… — Nina Ananiashvili Copy Share Image
Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical… — William James Copy Share Image
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's… — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably… — Richard Strozzi-Heckler Copy Share Image
I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
