Abstraction Quote by May Sarton Download Open image “Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.” — May Sarton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstraction Light Snow
A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold. — James Salter Copy Share Image
“But at sunset the clouds gathered again, bringing an earlier night, and the snow began to fall straight and steadily from a sky without… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Snow is to life as snowflakes are to people. When you look at the snow pouring you see a storm. When you watch each… — Audrey Regan Copy Share Image
“The snow crystals . . . come to us not only to reveal the wondrous beauty of the minute in Nature, but to teach… — Wilson A. Bentley Copy Share Image
“The snow lay deep and undisturbed beneath the silver light of a dawning sky.” — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“It is not so much the science of snow for me, anymore. I’d rather just look at it. The light, the way it absorbs… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Now winter downs the dying of the year, And night is all a settlement of snow; From the soft street the rooms of houses… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is the face of… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share Image
