“You need a body to preserve your soul, not a set of abstract principles.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. — Jim Hodges Copy Share Image
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have enormous affection for Bill Simmons and not just in an abstract way but a very specific way. — Chris Connelly Copy Share Image
Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to… — Feist Copy Share Image
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done.… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies. — Kemp Muhl Copy Share Image
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
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