I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a… — Beauford Delaney Copy Share Image
Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I think my comedy's probably the same as my art, which is kind of abstract, impressionist, emotional. You create an emotion and… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
Touring was an abstract idea for me in the beginning. I didn't know where it was going to take me, but I… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate… — Ernest Everett Just Copy Share Image
The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but… — Emmanuel Lubezki Copy Share Image
“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say,… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria, And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When… — Steve "Lips" Kudlow Copy Share Image
The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could… — Margaux Williamson Copy Share Image
If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
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