Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willem de Kooning

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Wassily Kandinsky

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Chris Peterson

Restoring the canyon is no longer an abstract notion now that people can actually experience its beauty.

Richard Shelton

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Russell Smith

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.

Brittany Howard

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

John Van Hamersveld

In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.

Bruce Lahn

In another 10,000 or 20,000 years, I think the human brain may acquire a form that is quite different than the human brain today. Not necessarily in its shape, which may remain relatively the same. But the function may be different. It may be, on average, a little smarter. Or it may acquire certain skills that in its current form it isn't well-equipped to handle -- advanced cognitive abilities such as abstract reasoning. We don't really know for sure how -- but we are still evolving.

Damon Galgut

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

Douglas Elliott

I suspect that there will be some mix of taxpayer subsidy and increase in premiums that attempts to partially recoup the losses.

Laila Sadler

It also seems to be in distress. It has made two seemingly deliberate attempts to beach itself.

John Curran

There are so many machines connected to the Internet, you will see ... attempts to sweep a whole range of Internet addresses looking for hosts that have weaknesses. It's like testing doorknobs.

Dan Fink

I thought we did take a step forward tonight. If we connect on a couple more shot attempts and don't give the ball away at some inopportune times, I think it's a different ball game. We just have to stay positive and try and continue to build some momentum at the end of the season.

Kate Kelly

The sentencing court never considered the expression of remorse of the defendant, never considered her attempts to help herself and never considered her rehabilitation efforts.

Brad Luna

Any attempts to turn back the clock such as this one are out of step with the values of the majority of Americans.

Dick Piper

It's rare that we see intentional attempts at this sort of thing.

Robert Sloan

Dave Bliss' attempts to conceal from investigators the truth about improprieties in our men's basketball program represent a profound betrayal of the trust that Baylor University and our players placed in him,

Terry Riley

La monte's idea was just to have this one big form that were just long tones, I think that was the real essential heart of minimalist music.

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

Sathya Baba

It is not enough, nor is it essential that you should repeat the name of Rama loudly; respect it in the fullness of love and admiration.

Kit Bond

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

Terence McElroy

He is a free-market person, as I think most Americans are. The one exception is for basic, essential commodities during an emergency.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.

Sargent Shriver

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

Vinessa Shaw

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Mary Bailey

I went through working in many mediums before settling on wood. I like it as a medium. It is non-toxic, versatile in the forms you can get, and has a nice tactile quality.

James Thurber

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms / hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thomas Jefferson

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Michael Crye

Cruising is one of the safest forms of transportation.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

Albert Einstein

We found there were people doing acupuncture, meditation, naturopathy and other forms of alternative or complementary medicine ... but it was being done in a disorganized way,

James Patterson

There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.

Richard King

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

James Maxey

I wanted us to leave, purely as a precautionary measure,

Ovid

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

David Rakoff

Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

Niall Ferguson

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

Bruce Roper

Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.

Atharva Veda

Servant Nanak seeks Your Support; he has come to Your Sanctuary.

John Ortberg

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

Italian Proverb

He that seeks to have many friends never has any

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Roseanne Barr

In Tulsa, restaurants have signs that say, "Sorry, we're open.

Shan Foster

It's amazing; I can read street signs but I can't make a 3-pointer.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

Daniel Tieken

I don't see any signs of it stopping.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Bob Newman

We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.