The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I love lyrics. I've always been averse to the straight lyric idea. I guess a big part of it is, that songs… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep. I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if… — Katherine Philips Copy Share Image
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s,… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't… — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example,… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I've worked in the factories of this land, and I've thought freely and creatively. And I think that that has greatly enriched… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
