As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about,… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative,… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I just want to be Kevin Abstract and exist and help as many people as possible who are struggling with whatever they're… — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . .… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. — Clive James Copy Share Image
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence… — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community."… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
