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Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. — Gerhard Richter
If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked. — Jay Maisel
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves — Werner Heisenberg
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in… — Paul Dirac
Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the… — Tom Robbins
The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it.… — Alfred Eisenstaedt
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make… — S I Hayakawa
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. — Orhan Pamuk
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked… — Asger Jorn
No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'-… — Gerry Adams
Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive… — Nina Simone
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner… — Laura Bush
Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. — Thurman Arnold
Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it — W. Somerset Maugham
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every… — Heather O'Neill
I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well. — Steve Hackett
The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance… — Jacques d'Amboise
The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life in my hands, I was hooked. It… — Mario Andretti
But that is like saying that the hole in the sand looks like the stick that you made the hole in the sand with. Holes… — Werner Erhard
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography. — Helmut Newton
When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to… — Eric Holder
War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing… — Errol Morris
Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create? — Pietro Aretino
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black
I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be… — Jim Capaldi

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