At first the difference will be in whatever atmosphere I bring into it. It's not going to be like, 'I really want… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and… — Thomas B. Macaulay 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
The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
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Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. .… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
People ask me this a lot, what a song's about… I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
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To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other… — Nicola Chiaromonte Copy Share Image
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy… — Barack Obama 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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’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)
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