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.

Joschka Fischer

It is not only because of the incidents with the Swiss, Swedish, and Spanish embassies. There is an urgent need for discussions,

Gary Davidson

These incidents were not reported to us. When something isn't reported, there's nothing we can do.

Mark Feldstein

These incidents become viewed through the lens of metaphor,

O. J. Simpson

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

Rick Dunlap

These two incidents in the jail could have been prevented.

Jim Fowler

Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

John Lyly

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

Wayne Minnaar

There have been no reported incidents so far, but we are monitoring the situation as usual.

Harvey Rosenthal

There's no question we can find random incidents that are really terrible and tragic. But, for the most part, these are the exceptions.

Brene Brown

Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism

Gerald Cohen

But whether payrolls come in at minus 10,000 or plus 10,000, it won't tell you that much.

Martin Pyykkonen

That 6 percent plus or minus is about where they're stuck at.

Adolf Rosenstock

I was placed for a negative number but minus 8 is a shocker.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

James Avery

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

Kate O'Mara

Shakespeare is where I live. I adore him.

John Clare

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly.

Rhys Ifans

When I was taught Shakespeare in school, it was such an alien, sanitized puzzle, it made no sense.

Richard Madden

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

William Shakespeare

Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

Robert Gottlieb

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

Greg Evans

Shakespeare was shakespeare; whether untrussing, but still him.

Brian d'Arcy James

I've always wanted to give 'Hamlet' a shot. It's the big one, you know. I haven't done Shakespeare professionally, so I think it would be terrifying.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Debbie Harry

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

John Drinkwater

The written word is everything.

John Lydon

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

Sevyn Streeter

You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat.

Bram Cohen

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Felipe Alou

What a script. Wow. It was like it was written to be that way.