Abstract Quotes

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Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. — William James
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. — James Bryant Conant
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti
The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have… — Theodore Levitt
Money is human happiness in the abstract. — Arthur Schopenhauer
My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you… — Andrew Wyeth
I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that… — Ryan Reynolds
I think games are a good medium for approaching any subject, particularly difficult ones, because by their very nature, they are abstract, invite interaction and… — Brenda Brathwaite
As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its… — Arne Glimcher
Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world. — James Balog
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. — Aaron Huey
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are… — Andy Warhol
My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. — Twyla Tharp
I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible. — Hedda Sterne
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. — Paulo Coelho
From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery… — Vidya Balan
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable?… — James Fenimore Cooper
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always… — Russell Smith
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is… — Stephen Gaghan
Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as… — Nancy Gibbs

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