Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact.… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve… — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and… — William James Copy Share Image
I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Intellectualization complicates truth as it abstracts from what is.” — Omar Delawar Copy Share Image