Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied.… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Story is the oldest, commonest, most beloved, and most effective form of communication because our life is essentially a story. That's why… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade,… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It must be this overarching commitment to what is really an abstraction, to one's children right or wrong, that can be even… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness.... For physics is not about the real world, it is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body. — Antony Tudor Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.” — David Shenk Copy Share Image
It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction. — Max Roach Copy Share Image