Conceptual Quotes

156 quotes by 123 authors

When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is… — Sol LeWitt
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work — Sol LeWitt
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of… — Unknown Author
If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it… — Adyashanti
Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design. — Fred Brooks
The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but… — Donald A. Norman
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle… — Alan Greenspan
The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not… — George Saunders
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions… — Stephen Jay Gould
The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional… — Shunryu Suzuki
I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas — Kim Gordon
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. â€¦ Our… — Murray Bookchin
I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new… — Boz Scaggs
...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures. — Reinhold Niebuhr
I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a… — Jenny Saville
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion. — Donald Davidson
We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has… — John Lennon
To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided. — Longchenpa
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of… — Fred Brooks
Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders.… — Steven Johnson

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