Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have enormous affection for Bill Simmons and not just in an abstract way but a very specific way. — Chris Connelly Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing,… — Tony Grisoni Copy Share Image
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We know how to work certain toys, and if you've got something in your head you know how to get in on… — Jez Williams 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
I don't know if embarrassed is the right word, about pop, but I prefer the abstract and the distorted in music. And… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought. — John Bargh Copy Share Image
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence… — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work. — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
![“Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through.” quote by Tony Grisoni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a98/tony-grisoni-71812_abstract_music-i-find-gets-you-out-of-a-trap-when_2269792.jpg)
![“I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.” quote by William Eggleston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/973/william-eggleston-12373_abstract_i-ve-always-assumed-that-the-abstract-qu_2362279.jpg)
