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
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
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me,… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass… — William James Copy Share Image
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
For me, there's the certain focus points that come out, which could reference a song or a pop disco, or something really… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group;… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
“Reich described the redirection of unmet desires as sublimation, in which natural libidinal urges and raw bodily drives for connection and release… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older,… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
And when I say permanent afternoon, you know, I’m talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didn’t need… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special,… — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
The smaller the instrument or more hidden it is such as electronics, the more esoteric it becomes and in my mind becomes… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
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