I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
The only thing I collect is art. I collect it because I like looking at it. A lot of it is really… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee. — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is. — Cecil Balmond Copy Share Image
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Corruption is a fact of life in America as in Afganistan, but as American citizens, if we are white, we tend to… — Sarah Chayes Copy Share Image
It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I can't actually explain why my lines got shorter, but they did. Just as I can't explain why my early poems were… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind;… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a… — Beauford Delaney Copy Share Image
I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
