You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as… — Geoffrey Jellicoe Copy Share Image
I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In a first pregnancy, you don't have a child yet, so you can nap and see movies and exercise. The notion of… — Kelli Williams Copy Share Image
The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space.… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions… — Ada Lovelace 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
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This… — Kate O'Beirne Copy Share Image
What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth"… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence… — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought. — John Bargh Copy Share Image
Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception… — William James Copy Share Image
I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work. — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
