The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class… — Michel Aflaq Copy Share Image
“The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws… — Tom Cheetham Copy Share Image
Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular… — William James Copy Share Image
If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
When the thing observed... is seen as an agglomeration of pieces, the details lose their meaning and the whole becomes unrecognizable. This… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“The symbol is not a mere formality; it is the very essence of algebra. Without the symbol the object is a human… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great.… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Because we cannot deal with the many as individuals, we sometimes try to simplify the many into an abstraction called the mass.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“From the dawn of civilization, human beings have tried to find out order in the chaotic world surrounding them. It has however… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion 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
Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel Copy Share Image
I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try… — Spencer Krug Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“ abstraction , n . Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“it’s precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied.… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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