You can't buy your privacy back. Because I was already doing OK, and to have this abstract amount of money now, I… — David Choe Copy Share Image
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
Cryptic messages and abstract statements are littered throughout the music of Happy Birthday, but it hasn't made the band's sun-baked pop-rock any… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen. — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is… — Lazaro Hernandez Copy Share Image
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I… — Grimes Copy Share Image
The music should highlight nuances within a collection. I always discard my initial music selection, but it's important to get those more… — Mia Moretti Copy Share Image
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind;… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Maybe scientists are fundamentalist when it comes to defining in some abstract way what is meant by 'truth'. But so is everybody… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating… — Harlan Lane Copy Share Image
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
“Merry a mind is of a weeping willow roots raising concrete be in fit out all abstract.” — Antonia Perdu Copy Share Image
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction,… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results. — William James Copy Share Image
The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern. — Josephine Herbst Copy Share Image
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were… — Larry Rivers Copy Share Image
The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of… — William James Copy Share Image
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to… — Bill T. Jones Copy Share Image
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
![“Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of the throat and mouth. Then the first criterion for language that I had learned as a student—it is spoken and heard—was wrong; and, more important, language did not…” quote by Harlan Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d1/harlan-lane-110195_ability_language-can-be-expressed-by-movements-o_1734575.png)
![“It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and [undocumented] children who grew up in this country, and who go to the same school you once went to... They thought if we only enforce the law, people will self-deport…” quote by Mike Coffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/318/mike-coffman-20772_abstract_it-s-different-when-you-talk-about-immig_1944499.jpg)
