Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.

What attracted me to it was a series of X-ray photographs of the internals of those beautiful abstract works,

Berthold Auerbach

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Jack Straw

I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.

I didn't just want to make an abstract ballet. I wanted to create an idea. I came up with the theme of a poet, an artist or a musician searching for inspiration from a muse, from a beautiful woman.

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

I am truly excited about the quality of these three major sculptures, but also about the diversity of contemporary art being acquired by the museum. The range of work, from abstract to pop art to contemporary realism, demonstrate great breadth and significantly enhance the public art program in our area.

Lance Henriksen

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

Lynsey Addario

The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

Proxies should be competent, adequately informed, emotionally stable and committed to your interests. They're expected to decide as if they were you -- that is, based on their best knowledge of your values and your beliefs and not based on their own values and beliefs or some kind of abstract best interest.

Tom G. Palmer

Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that the system of justice should abstract from the concrete characteristics of individuals.

Martha Scott

Something to Look Forward To' pays homage to the talent, vision and persistence of particular black artists who have created dynamic abstract images and objects during extended and successful careers.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

They're not collections based on an abstract definition of pretty, it's all what a sophisticated consumer would find charming.

Al Capp

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Albert Camus

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Dan Colen

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

Americans are not fighting nor being targeted by an abstract called terrorism, but a growing body of ideological concepts. They need to know what is it they are up against.

It's not some abstract thing, to support the arts, ... It's a very vital part of our lives.

You see the ribbon on cars and trucks and flags in places and it is so abstract until it hits your family.

Sufjan Stevens

I like residing in abstraction.

Robert A. Heinlein

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Sylvia Plath

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

Stephen Dunn

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

William Gibson

Cyberspace was a consensual hallucination that felt and looked like a physical space but actually was a computer-generated construct representing abstract data.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

Ed Kowalczyk

This song probably has the most memorable melody we've ever recorded. I really like how we're using something so catchy to convey these abstract lyrical ideas I have about songwriting. When I sit down to write a song, I always feel like I'm wading into a river where a nurturing female presence guides me and pushes me along when I need it.

Anne Michaels

I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.

Douglas Trumbull

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

Shavo Odadjian

It was all done at the same time. We sort of arranged the whole thing and cut it in half. A good example is an artist who does two canvases. He paints an abstract painting and then splits them. He shows the public the first piece and has them get used to that first piece. Then he gets the second piece and lets them get used to it, and then he puts them together and lets them see how they make sense together. So they make sense separately, but they also make sense together.

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation to one to whom they appear. This is art, the truth of which is not in substance or logic, but in expression. Abstract truth may belong to science and