Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“this is the abstract, this is the cold doing, this is the almost impossible” — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could… — Margaux Williamson Copy Share Image
If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
When I make films I'm very intuitive; I'm instinctive. When you are shooting there's little time to think about abstract ideas, it's… — Olivier Assayas Copy Share Image
Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently… — Stanton T. Friedman Copy Share Image
'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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