Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella 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
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and… — William James Copy Share Image
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts… — John Battelle 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
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some… — Richard Howells Copy Share Image
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
