No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore. — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape. — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a… — Beauford Delaney 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
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
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
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
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
