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To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. David Lynch
Me Words Both Abstract Abstraction Well Said Concrete Hold Story Really Things
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. David Ogilvy
Would Some Only Abstract Conceal Wished Advertisement Advertising Reader Manufacturers Paintings Illustrate
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. Denis Diderot
Signs Nothing Relations Abstract Study Between Sciences
Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting. Derek Walcott
Music Art Complicated Painting Musical Complex Some Composition About Abstract Know Contemporary Contemporary Music Equivalent May Which Little
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that. Donald Byrd
Work Relationship Sometimes Direct Fact Abstract Concerns In Fact Appear Based
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. E. T. Bell
Mathematics Possibly More Abstract Longer Also Practical Becomes Therefore Lives
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts. Edmund White
Politics Law Thrive Before Revolution France Must Abstract Individuals Idea Since Equal French Identity Opposed Left America Arts Us Right
I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling. Eliot Sumner
You People Song Feeling Own Think Way Slightly Exactly More Songs Written Abstract Feel Make Hear Lot Them Special Even Interpret
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. Ellen Key
Art World Horrifying More Abstract Becomes
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative. Emmanuel Lubezki
Music Language Further Abstract Narrative Still Closer Theater Film Away
Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat. Evan Osnos
You Writing Somebody Somewhere Living Threat About Abstract Idea Get Politically Beijing Sensitive Might Then Used Now Now And Then Things Watching
I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life. It was too abstract, too far removed from human concerns. Francis Collins
Life Rest Degree My Life Finished Too Bit Crisis Recognizing Abstract Concerns Quantum Quantum Mechanics Underwent Up Personal Graduate Graduate Degree Human Want Far Mechanics
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. Frank Stella
Best Become Painting Worried Had Abstract Obsessed Were Up Wall Gestures Against Painterly
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. Frank Stella
People World Doctors Honestly Everybody Slightly Broker Only Lawyers Had Abstract Until Make Became Because Up Wanted Skewed View Paintings Believed Things World View
Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know. George Packer
Class People Feeling Group Sympathy Progressives Members Easy Vanish Disturbing Entity Economic Contact Abstract Powerful Like Know Look Sound Arrive Often Want Urban Might Working Working-Class Who Beliefs Actual
I'm a fan of genre in the abstract, but at best, perhaps all we can really say when we talk about genre is that we're talking about an umbrella that covers a kind of story with certain elements. Greg Rucka
Best Say Kind About Abstract Perhaps Talk Genre Talking Covers Umbrella Fan Story Really Certain Elements
In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future. Gregory Stock
Future Good Great Vision Sacrifice Evils Willing Some About Perfect Through Abstract Individuals Most Improved Where Us View Notion Present Damaging
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal. Gro Harlem Brundtland
Me Impossible Achieve Poverty First Half Think Say Abstract Global Real Goal Target Cutting Millennium
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. Gustave Moreau
One Thing Abstract Towards Attraction Am Dominated Irresistible Burning Thing
I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable. Hamza Yusuf
War Think Unacceptable Abstract Idea Noun
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. Hans Hofmann
Work Every Visual No Difference Follows Laws Abstract Makes Same Difference Whether Naturalistic Expression Fundamental Fundamental Laws
I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible. Hedda Sterne
Abstract Nor Expressionist
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. Henry Flynt
Music Time Painting Harvard About Student Abstract Well Well Known Known Learned Were Jackson Where So-Called Avant-Garde Expressionism
The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious. Henry Moore
Art Good Me Imagination Unnecessary Classical Seems Both Unconscious Abstract Contained Between Quarrel Surprise Intellect Surrealist Quite Just Order Romantic Good Art Elements Conscious Violent
Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow. Herb Ritts
You Natural Light Mountains Live Location Shadow Shape Abstract Like Hours Within Texture Where Desert Elements Two
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat. Howard Berman
Terrorism Congress September Threat Atmosphere Abstract Longer Real Tangible Issue Different After
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