Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great.… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
This [terrorists attacks on 9/11] was part of nothing. It was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.” — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Life ain't a concept. Music is not a concept. My titles are poetic abstractions of something that is with me all the… — Merzbow Copy Share Image
Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
“Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cognizant of the nuisance to serenity… — O.Z. Napaeae Copy Share Image
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