All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
I don't like videos that explain the song. I like it to be kind of abstract, like a painting. — Shavo Odadjian Copy Share Image
My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions… — Giacomo Balla Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative,… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
When I make films I'm very intuitive; I'm instinctive. When you are shooting there's little time to think about abstract ideas, it's… — Olivier Assayas Copy Share Image
Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently… — Stanton T. Friedman Copy Share Image
It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large,… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end. — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs… — John Ziman Copy Share Image
Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
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