Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff,… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great.… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I've always felt that sort of in the abstract, open-source is the right thing to do for a lot of the kinds… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance,… — James Franco Copy Share Image
We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun?… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part… — James Key Copy Share Image
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you… — Euan Uglow Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
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