This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it… — Piet Mondrian 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
By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. It’s… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can… — Michael Baden Copy Share Image
The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe,… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today! — John Carmack Copy Share Image
“Sabism is deabstraction, metacolorism, thematism, exotic, convalescent substrate, soft act, collectivism, pluralization, sensationalism, pluralart, thematic colourism, reabstraction.” — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
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