Conceptual Quotes

156 Conceptual quotes by 123 unique authors

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very… — John Polkinghorne
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz
In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to… — Jerry Saltz
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know… — Gus Van Sant
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and… — George Saunders
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

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