fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality. — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical…music is under two signs, the stars and the wine — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
We are not a single-issue party that puts abstract policy ahead of the working lives of people. We are not bitter, frightened… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I admire artists who really take risks and aren't afraid to do smaller movies and obscure, abstract things. It would be really… — Britne Oldford Copy Share Image
I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What… — Neil Farber Copy Share Image
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's… — Drummond Money-Coutts Copy Share Image
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Within a social structure, a familial structure, or a cultural structure of various kinds, there is a substitute for actual freedom. I… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
