Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME… — Elisabeth Leamy Copy Share Image
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try… — Spencer Krug Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind;… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating… — Harlan Lane Copy Share Image
The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
The music should highlight nuances within a collection. I always discard my initial music selection, but it's important to get those more… — Mia Moretti 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
All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect… — Jonathan Van Ness Copy Share Image
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
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