It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion's… — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. — James J. Gibson Copy Share Image
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If I play the melody, even if I play it in an abstract manner, it's instantly recognizable. Even when I was studying… — Stefon Harris Copy Share Image
The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that… — Alexander Morozevich Copy Share Image
I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
“Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it.… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it.… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is. — Cecil Balmond Copy Share Image
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
