Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. — Jim Hodges Copy Share Image
The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Mirzya' was an abstract musical. In the end, it was not a conventional film, so it cannot or is unlikely to get… — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is… — Pam Gems Copy Share Image
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Crime and the effect on the community, and the need for law enforcement - those are not abstract concepts or political slogans… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was… — Rainbow Rowell Eleanor and Park Copy Share Image
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of. — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try… — Spencer Krug Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but… — Michel Chion Copy Share Image
I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in… — William James Copy Share Image
The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man… — Geoffrey Jellicoe Copy Share Image
Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“You need a body to preserve your soul, not a set of abstract principles.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task. — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
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