Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other… — Nicola Chiaromonte Copy Share Image
If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material.… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see… — Giorgio Morandi Copy Share Image
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?'… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to -… — Paul Gilding Copy Share Image
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
I don't know if embarrassed is the right word, about pop, but I prefer the abstract and the distorted in music. And… — Jason Pierce Copy Share Image
I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
We know how to work certain toys, and if you've got something in your head you know how to get in on… — Jez Williams Copy Share Image
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing,… — Tony Grisoni Copy Share Image
![“Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less…” quote by Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4da/philip-glass-14533_abstract_theatrical-times-are-different-from-conc_3024128.jpg)
![“I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.” quote by William Eggleston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/william-eggleston-12373_abstract_i-ve-always-assumed-that-the-abstract-qu_2362279.jpg)
![“Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through.” quote by Tony Grisoni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a98/tony-grisoni-71812_abstract_music-i-find-gets-you-out-of-a-trap-when_2269792.jpg)
