The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside… — James Dyson 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
The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy.… — Richard Marcinko 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
The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe… — John Keats Copy Share Image
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think, first and foremost ,Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements… — Theodor Svedberg Copy Share Image
I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their… — Adele Logan Alexander Copy Share Image
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans]… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
Playing to resentment and using a lot of, you know, grand abstract phrases like make America great again is - it just… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological,… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
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