A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things. — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice. — John Kador Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could… — Margaux Williamson Copy Share Image
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but… — Emmanuel Lubezki Copy Share Image
We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate… — Ernest Everett Just Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently… — Stanton T. Friedman Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large,… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not… — Lisa Gerrard Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense. — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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