I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense. — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
“The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of… — William James Copy Share Image
The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our… — Gary Marcus Copy Share Image
I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but… — Erin McKeown Copy Share Image
Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract -… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image