Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it. — London Breed Copy Share Image
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas… the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact. — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi 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
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
What interests me is all the stuff that goes into abstract and abstract-figurative art. Not the styles, but the stuff that, in… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a… — William James Copy Share Image
If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change.… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered. — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image