Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common. — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?'… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. Most of the time,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat. — Howard Berman Copy Share Image
Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and… — Julius Evola 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
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty… — Jean Giraudoux 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
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract,… — Yanni Copy Share Image
There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image