A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting.
You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.
I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.
All good art is abstract in its structure.
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.
There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.
The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a very hard thing to do for a first-generation schoolgoer. Because not to have parents at home who can help you, motivate you, is a problem even when the parents are in the abstract very keen on children being educated.
As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.