“From the dawn of civilization, human beings have tried to find out order in the chaotic world surrounding them. It has however… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . .… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away. — Kelela Copy Share Image
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
We have also obtained a glimpse of another crucial idea about languages and program design. This is the approach of statified design,… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man's will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At some level, you have to be able to say, "This is my task." It's in small, local ways that you keep… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding....Basketball comes close, but it's a team… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most… — Tom Coughlin Copy Share Image
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
