Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence… — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought. — John Bargh Copy Share Image
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception… — William James Copy Share Image
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME… — Elisabeth Leamy Copy Share Image
As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies… — Teresa Wright Copy Share Image
Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries… — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions… — Giacomo Balla Copy Share Image
I love going to the runway shows. It's not so much for me a shopping trip as it is the appreciation of… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression… — Ludwig von Bertalanffy Copy Share Image
“From the study of the development of human intelligence, in all directions, and through all times, the discovery arises of a great… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to… — John Cage Copy Share Image
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The good thing I will say about the Chicago School is that it was always about the world, not about the abstract. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work. — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative,… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The music should highlight nuances within a collection. I always discard my initial music selection, but it's important to get those more… — Mia Moretti Copy Share Image
I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
