I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject… — Raymond Louis Wilder Copy Share Image
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a… — Beauford Delaney Copy Share Image
Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I think my comedy's probably the same as my art, which is kind of abstract, impressionist, emotional. You create an emotion and… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as… — Lidia Yuknavitch 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
At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We can tell people abstract rules of thumb which we have derived from prior experiences, but it is very difficult for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the… — William James Copy Share Image
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I have been in love with Emily Dickinson's poetry since I was 13, and, like an anonymous post on findagrave.com says, 'Dear… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The easiest way for me to tell someone what I do is to say that I'm a non-musician who practises and produces… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
There is a part of yourself that is not subject to change, it is the silent witness behind the scenes. That is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
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