I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically,… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Everybody just wants to appreciate time as it's passing, to be in the moment. It's the hardest thing to do. You're either… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual;… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Clothes are only completed when somebody actually wears them. If they were art, they could be more abstract. As long as something… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value… — Walter Russell 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
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that… — Mike Watt Copy Share Image
When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I'm sad to admit that I have very, very few memories of my father because, not only did he die when I… — Lux Pascal Copy Share Image
In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, "Didn't you want to get married?" Well, sure, but… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of horror films, particularly 'Friday the 13th.' It's one of the only genres that weaves abstract experimental techniques… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art.… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
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