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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete reality.
Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.
There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract ideas.
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.
There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.
The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work.
I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.
What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.
A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes.
Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying.
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.
What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation.
I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.
Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.
We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws
An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.
Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.
I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.
To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.
In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.
The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living.
The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).
I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
We are not a single-issue party that puts abstract policy ahead of the working lives of people. We are not bitter, frightened xenophobes.
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.
Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.
Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.
Animals represent the abstract notion of acceptance. Living with these funny creatures - you kind of have to accept them. It's like a test in a way.
Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.
My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.
