The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love. — Orville Prescott Copy Share Image
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.” — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Deep Learning is about learning multiple levels of representation and abstraction that help to make sense of data such as images, sound,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of… — Alexander Hamilton 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,… — Elie Wiesel 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
“it’s precisely the infinite that casts light upon how the brain thinks, and how clever it is in showing us something that… — László Krasznahorkai 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
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implies a life-long need for concrete moral… — Robert B. Louden 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
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz 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
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. — Evangelista Torricelli Copy Share Image
Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction. — Hans Werner Henze Copy Share Image
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a… — Jeffrey Deitch 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
“When your problem is one of needing numerous specializations of a stable, common abstraction, inheritance can be an extremely low-cost solution.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
“Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“so each day brought a further descent into the depths of concrete existence and a further ascent toward the heights of abstraction.” — Jean d'Ormesson 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
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image