The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction,… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms… — William James Copy Share Image
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it… — Marlene Caroselli Copy Share Image
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“And just what is Antoine Roquentin? An abstraction. A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness. Antoine Roquentin . . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The world expects of Christians that they will raise their voices so loudly and clearly and so formulate their protest that not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
“Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations… — Satyajit Das Copy Share Image
“Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cognizant of the nuisance to serenity… — O.Z. Napaeae Copy Share Image
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that "beauty always takes place in the particular." Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Abstraction can be a powerful tool, but it can also lead to heads buried in the sand. In” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the… — George Boole Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The only measures that count are progress over your own self, and triumph over the vacant abstractions that most people mistake for… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
