It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. — Vladimir Lenin 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
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
I love lyrics. I've always been averse to the straight lyric idea. I guess a big part of it is, that songs… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
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
The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could… — Margaux Williamson Copy Share Image
If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Obama's attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win — Percy Foreman Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality,… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words. — Katherine McCoy Copy Share Image
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
