I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract. — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract — William James Copy Share Image
The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe… — John Keats Copy Share Image
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear… — Yves Saint Laurent 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
The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of… — Dan Meyer Copy Share Image
The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of… — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass… — William James Copy Share Image
In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice. — John Kador Copy Share Image
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