Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
'Bond girl' is a bit abstract, what does that mean, you see a girl in a bikini? — Berenice Marlohe Copy Share Image
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This… — Kate O'Beirne Copy Share Image
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
I don't like videos that explain the song. I like it to be kind of abstract, like a painting. — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end. — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs… — John Ziman Copy Share Image
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
