The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art. — Keaton Stromberg Copy Share Image
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface. — Robert Ryman Copy Share Image
Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Christ did not found an abstract religion, a mere school of religious thought. He setup a community of apostles, of teachers, with… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and… — William James Copy Share Image
My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent… — Freydoon Rassouli Copy Share Image
For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions,… — Goh Chok Tong Copy Share Image
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Jazz musicians like John Coltrane needed these very clear titles for their abstract music, and your decision to bring voices into your… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I think that metaphor really is a key to explaining thought and language. The human mind comes equipped with an ability to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When you're playing a spirit from another dimension, you really can do anything and get as abstract as you want and still… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't… — Lucien Smith Copy Share Image
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies. — Lady Hester Stanhope Copy Share Image
The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
