Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. — Clive James Copy Share Image
The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art. — Keaton Stromberg Copy Share Image
Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students… — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in… — Davies Gilbert Copy Share Image
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s,… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
For instance, members of the elite will never allow their children to become musicians normally, because it's - not embarrassing - but… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The US and Israel have demanded further that Palestinians not only recognize Israel's rights as a state in the international system, but… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface. — Robert Ryman Copy Share Image
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to… — Max Born Copy Share Image
