Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Our lives don't make sense in abstraction, only when compared with the lives of others. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real,… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction,… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when… — David Small Copy Share Image
The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of "God" to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implies a life-long need for concrete moral… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered. — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
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