Abbreviations Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image “Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abbreviations Accounts Art Artistic Force Reality Severe
“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain… — Joan Lindsay Copy Share Image
I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness… — Graham Cray Copy Share Image
Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole... — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being criticized on… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks… — Corey Ford Copy Share Image
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
“rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. — Fats Domino Copy Share Image
NOT everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. some are born ,just to experience the abbreviation of… — Ravinder Singh Copy Share Image
The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
