Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable.… — Tommy Davidson Copy Share Image
The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. — Jim Hodges Copy Share Image
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be… — Christopher Willard Copy Share Image
Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing… — Gregory Stock Copy Share Image
Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Crime and the effect on the community, and the need for law enforcement - those are not abstract concepts or political slogans… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
