Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly. — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore. — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see… — Giorgio Morandi Copy Share Image
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I want kids to live through this character I've created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they… — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
