'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to… — John Cage Copy Share Image
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What… — Neil Farber 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
Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it. — London Breed Copy Share Image
I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I… — Grimes Copy Share Image
One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. — Georges Simenon 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
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract — William James Copy Share Image
The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be… — Maimonides 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
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
