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
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
I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth;… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found… — Doron Zeilberger Copy Share Image
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done.… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils… — William James Copy Share Image
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
We know that the ability to take on complex ideas, to handle the notion of a multiplicity of viewpoints, to deal in… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower… — Francisco Varela Copy Share Image
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Just 'Hear' This!!!! There was a Deer, Whose ear sensed a Bear, Deer froze with fear, Bear came near. Negotiated Deer, Dear… — Mohit Sharma Copy Share Image
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