I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
One of the core values of the startup world is that you must have a list of core values. Like all abstract… — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences… — Eugene J. Martin Copy Share Image
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's… — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is… — F. Sionil José 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
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical… — Dionysius Lardner Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles… — Tom Noddy Copy Share Image
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in… — Vera Wang 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
I have enormous affection for Bill Simmons and not just in an abstract way but a very specific way. — Chris Connelly 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
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
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. — Timothy Gowers 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
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
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
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
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