Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Essentially, I look for what is interesting to me, out there in the three-dimensional world, and translate or interpret so that it… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class… — Michel Aflaq Copy Share Image
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction,… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems . — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this? — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try… — Spencer Krug Copy Share Image
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular… — William James Copy Share Image
Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest… — Aime Cesaire Copy Share Image
“All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“The principle of conservation of boson number inside a system is seen to follow directly from the Abstraction Model. The IBMs are… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
