Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it. — London Breed Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered. — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something… — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive… — Carl Jung 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
Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic… — Juan Gris Copy Share Image
In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task. — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image