Abstract Quotes · Page 11

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using…

— Dan Colen

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of…

— Ada Lovelace

I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work.

— Kevin Abstract

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but…

— Michel Chion

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn…

— Carroll Quigley

I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across…

— William C. Wright

All things whatsoever God in his infinite wisdom has seen fit and proper to reveal to us, while we are dwelling in…

— Sam Smith

The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as…

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,…

— Fernando Pessoa

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract…

— Muhammad Yunus

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms…

— Robert Genn

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

— Jenny Holzer

His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.

— Rachel Caine

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more…

— Eric Clapton

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off…

— William James

Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as…

— Rudy Rucker

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of…

— Anonymous

“I remember sitting in bed, as a child looking up at the ceiling I couldn’t sleep, of course, And so set about…

— Justin Wetch

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements…

— Theodor Svedberg

It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and…

— Tim Crane

I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really…

— John Newman

The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that…

— Mike Watt