#abstract

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#abstract thought #exhausted #nothing #politics #remains

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#depth #form #height #i #infinity

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat. ↗

— Howard Berman

#after #atmosphere #congress #different #issue

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

#cutting #first #global #goal #half

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#am #enlighten #expressing #forms #i

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#balance #beauty #cosmos #deepak-chopra #energy

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics. ↗

— William Vickrey

#economics #into #paper

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#arouse #art #bad #does #even

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. ↗

— John Dewey

#complex #defined #distinction #element #meant

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#chaos #control #engendered #holds #more