Conceptual Quotes

156 Conceptual quotes by 123 unique authors

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art.… — David Sedaris
My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long… — Donna Tartt
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and… — Eckhart Tolle
Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. — Eckhart Tolle
All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story. — Gerard Way
I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes… — Alber Elbaz
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. — Ram Dass
Psychedelics helped me to escape.. albeit momentarily.. from the prison of my mind. It over-rode the habit patterns of thought and I was able to… — Ram Dass
Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to… — Haruki Murakami
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. — Susan Sontag
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the… — Peter Rollins
The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually… — Isaiah Berlin
But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since… — Haruki Murakami
I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and… — James Bryant Conant
Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information. — Stephen Jay Gould
Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical. — Conrad Wolfram
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements,… — Arne Glimcher
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another. — James Geary
Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a… — Brian Eno
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater. — Tim Crouch
Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the… — David Novak
I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual. — Eleanor Catton
I thought conceptual art was a joke. — Gian Carlo Menotti
At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or… — Jai Rodriguez

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