I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain de Lille Copy Share Image
A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Part of what I love about games is that, even if you're best friends with somebody, it gives you these sort of… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
I love theater, a performance and designing a visual spectacle. It is like creating a composition with clothes, which have to fit… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components. — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
