Art Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages.

— Alfred Korzybski

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...

— Alfred Korzybski

To develop an empiricist account of science is to depict it as involving a search for truth only about the empirical world, aboutwhat is…

— Bas van Fraassen

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

— Albert Einstein

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”

— Bruce Lee

If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too…

— Edith Head

Wearing that? Wouldn't you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“the last several years my life had begun to feel shapeless, like underwear with the elastic gone, the days down around my ankles.”

— Abigail Thomas

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

— Michel de Montaigne

Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless…

— Italo Calvino

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

— Antonio Porchia