I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME… — Elisabeth Leamy Copy Share Image
To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries… — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies… — Teresa Wright Copy Share Image
We do have to learn poetry at school. Poetry is interesting to me, particularly Chinese poetry. It's like an ancient form of… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in… — John Legend 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
The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn 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
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract. — Morris Kline Copy Share Image
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
