Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words. — Katherine McCoy Copy Share Image
They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, "Didn't you want to get married?" Well, sure, but… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and… — Ernest Fenollosa Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
For me, there's the certain focus points that come out, which could reference a song or a pop disco, or something really… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
