Top 363 Conceptual Quotes & Sayings

I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.

The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there's a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.

'Zara Thehro' stemmed from a thought of marrying two separate thoughts - musical and conceptual.

I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.

Sometimes I think people confuse rote learning with traditional conceptual instruction.

The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz., words) and on the main terms connecting them. Words, or their inscriptions, unlike points, miles, classes and the rest, are tangible objects of the size so popular in the marketplace, where men of unlike conceptual schemes communicate at their best. The strategy is one of ascending to a common part of two fundamentally disparate conceptual schemes, the better to discuss the disparate foundations. No wonder it helps in philosophy.

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality.

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa.

To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Traditional conceptual art is very dry.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.

I'm a very conceptual writer.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

I want to be a part of a movie that changes people's conceptual framework, and suddenly you see things in a different way.

People who look at art don't really - don't go with the artist. They don't sort of accept what he or she has done and kind of go with it. There are always - either there's too much color or not enough color, either it's not conceptual enough or it's too conceptual. In other words, most criticism isn't what the viewer expected that it would do based on what they think you have done and that's good as far as I'm concerned.

There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.

We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

Im not trying to do conceptual art.

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

The world of enlightenment doesn't know of its own existence. We're beyond both the knower and known. There's no conceptual identity whatsoever.

I love conceptual art and artistic expression.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.

I think Bitcoin is a massive conceptual and helpful step forward.

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.

A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.

I buy a lot of fashion, and I wear many different brands. Even though I'm not so conceptual in my style, I probably buy the most from Junya Watanabe. It's always so spot on and of-the-moment although it's also so sophisticated and conceptual. I also love Marco de Vincenzo, Azzedine Alaia, and Yohji Yamamoto.

It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or whatever concept is being laid over the play, then it is to see a production of Shakespeare in which there is no conceptual overlay and the play is simply being presented on its own terms.

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.

Murakami's ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.

Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art.

Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual.

I'm not trying to do conceptual art.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.