My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance,… — James Franco Copy Share Image
terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When… — Steve "Lips" Kudlow Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as… — Barack Obama 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 tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic… — Juan Gris Copy Share Image
Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I met Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage the second day after I arrived, you know. I had never seen or heard of… — Babette Mangolte Copy Share Image
Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles… — Tom Noddy Copy Share Image
If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
