I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give… — Wynton Marsalis 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
Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and… — William James Copy Share Image
Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which… — Herbert Marcuse 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
“You have to be taught to recognize and care about differences, you have to be instructed who you really are; you have… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
“Long since, the standard way of understanding surface has been as an abstract and undifferentiated plane that functions above all to veil… — Sylvia Lavin 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
“Because we cannot deal with the many as individuals, we sometimes try to simplify the many into an abstraction called the mass.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of… — Charles Baudelaire 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
When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“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
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
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor 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
“We now come to the decisive step of mathematical abstraction: we forget about what the symbols stand for. ...[The mathematician] need not… — Anonymous 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
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
From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human,… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact.… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable.… — Saul Bass Copy Share Image
“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets,… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Life as observed only from the scientific point of view is bare abstraction; it is not concrete life; nor is life as… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even… — Robert W. Floyd Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram 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
“Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations… — Satyajit Das Copy Share Image