My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
The good thing I will say about the Chicago School is that it was always about the world, not about the abstract. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
At first the difference will be in whatever atmosphere I bring into it. It's not going to be like, 'I really want… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if… — James Lee Schmidt Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
If somebody asks me about the themes of something I'm working on, I never have any idea what the themes are. .… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of truths, and it is customary to place in the first order mathematical truths, which are, however, only… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
People ask me this a lot, what a song's about… I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and… — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want… — Nina Ananiashvili Copy Share Image
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off… — William James Copy Share Image
Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and… — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
