The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd… — Jean-Michel Basquiat Copy Share Image
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have to think too hard to keep my writing within a certain narrative thread. That happens because certain words trigger… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of… — William James Copy Share Image
“...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an automobile. Separate… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying… — William James Copy Share Image
'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract -… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the… — Jenny Packham Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time… — Boaz Lavie Copy Share Image
As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
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