life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Plain experience and common sense inform us that no abstract Person can have made us as we are without also wishing to… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine — Edgard Varese 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
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the… — Guity Novin 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
I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface. — Robert Ryman Copy Share Image
Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points… — Ernest Fenollosa Copy Share Image
I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible. — Bettany Hughes 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
