I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing… — Christian Marclay Copy Share Image
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is. — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every… — William Butler Yeats 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
“When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been… — Saim .A. Cheeda Copy Share Image
Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be… — Christopher Willard Copy Share Image
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in… — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I said there are two tracks of reform: there's the political and the technical. I don't believe the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across… — William C. Wright Copy Share Image
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form:… — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract,… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.) — Mel Bochner Copy Share Image
Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is… — Donald Byrd Copy Share Image
