The good thing I will say about the Chicago School is that it was always about the world, not about the abstract. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception… — William James Copy Share Image
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to -… — Paul Gilding Copy Share Image
The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want… — Nina Ananiashvili Copy Share Image
The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off… — William James Copy Share Image
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
