In 1915 Sophie Tauber and I carried out our first works in the simplest forms, using painting, embroidery and pasted paper (without… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit… — Dallas Campbell Copy Share Image
No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
If I describe a sunny morning in May (the buds, the wet-winged flies, the warm sun and cool breeze), I am also… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description. — Alexander Stoddart Copy Share Image
Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and… — Robin Green Copy Share Image
Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all." Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“What it must feel like to lie back with cut wrists in a warm bath, a voluptuous dwindling feeling.” — Michael Cisco Copy Share Image
“I begin to describe a three-tier cake. The bottom tier would be a deep, dark devil's food cake filled with thick chocolate… — Stacey Ballis Copy Share Image
The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“So long as our untried senses and our naïve heart recognize themselves and delight in the universe of qualifications, they flourish with… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“There were hundreds of them, all dressed like silver dragons, all with long, streaming capes that looked like great wings, flapping and… — Tony Del Degan Copy Share Image
Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“She watches her mother drink, then sits by her again before the picture window to watch the snow fall, watching closely until… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“The young man who stood there was the handsomest mad Rand had ever seen, almost too handsome for masculinity.” — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
“He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
We really have no choice in the matter. We are given a description of the world that is much more potent and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
