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«She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.»
«O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.»
«The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.»
Author: Tom Naylor
| Keywords:
abstract, fantasy, manipulation, manipulations, real life, reassure, reassured, reassures, reassuring, retreat, technical, tendency
«Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| About:
Praise
| Keywords:
abstract, critic, effect, momentary, on his own, severe
«There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Realism
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, abstract art, afterward, remove, start, traces, tracing
«There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Courage
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, concrete, not for, plenty
«That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, autobiography, civilized, concrete, delightful, fascinating, record, vague
«Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
abstract, claiming, corresponding, duties, History of the, inherent, occasion, parliamentary, privileges, records, Rights and privileges, Rights of Man, sophism, stated, The Rights of Man
«Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes -- we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
abstract, alas, crowd, gathering, gatherings, Gathering The, Human eye, impression, millions, ordinarily, sensual, superiority, The Crowd
«The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city and county, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
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