It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I feel like there's a lot of albums that are like 'woo! we're young, let's have fun' and there's a lot of… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . .… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
Let's talk about the artist's desire to go beyond the pictorial or the representational and the desire to create the abstract -… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Picasso and Matisse were the guys I wanted to get away from, and cubism is all still lifes. Their paintings are all… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies. — Lady Hester Stanhope Copy Share Image
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't… — Lucien Smith Copy Share Image
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration. — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
