“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality… — Piet Mondrian 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
Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of. — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape. — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The good thing I will say about the Chicago School is that it was always about the world, not about the abstract. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is… — Lazaro Hernandez Copy Share Image
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me,… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
