Quotes About Conceptual

I am not comparing myself to great artists, but when you see conceptual artists at work, on some level it's reassuring to know they can paint figuratively. Likewise, when you listen to the '50s jazz people who do these vast solos, you buy into it more if they open by playing a tune.

Mr. Morgan," Mrs. Hornberger said sternly. All eyes automatically swiveled to her, and even Rita stopped talking. Mrs. Hornberger looked at us each individually, to make sure we were all paying attention. Then the smile came back to her face, and everyone breathed again. "We were discussing Cody's Ã¢â'¬Â¦ conceptual difficulties Ã¢â'¬Â¦ with socialization.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

'Vol. 3' has broken down more barriers for us. We worked with different styles on this album. It's more musically mature in arrangement and is conceptual.

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

The proper conceptual view is attained only through introspection.

Few scientists would treat their cars as badly as they treat their conceptual schemes.

Science works by taking theoretical ideas and trying to find ways to expose them to observation. The scientific strategy is to construe ideas, to embed them in surrounding conceptual frameworks, and to develop them, in such a way that this exposure is possible even in the case of the most general and ambitious hypotheses about the universe.

The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.

two basic types of innovators, which he calls conceptual and experimental.

this is the essence of science fiction, the conceptual dislocation within the society is generated in the author's mind, transferred to paper, and from paper it occurs as a convulsive shock in the reader's mind, the shock of dysrecognition.

While the focus of this book is on the conceptual lines everyday utopias can generate, it also offers an account of recognition in some of its many different forms, for the book treats recognition as a relationship that cannot be assumed. Indeed it is the pervasive failure on the left, and specifically among critical academics, to recognize the conceptual life and promise of everyday utopias within the wider pursuit of a transformative politics, which drives this book.

Alexander Bird's Thomas Kuhn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000

Steven Toulmin's very insightful analysis and critique of Kuhn is found in his outstanding analysis of conceptual change Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evaluation of Human Concepts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972

the KLF were a bunch of conceptual pop tricksters who won the hearts of their home country with stunts like recording country singer Tammy Wynette in a rap context. Performing at the prestigious BRIT awards, Extreme Noise Terror blasted the KLF hit "3 a.m. Eternal" into oblivion while the KLF sprayed the audience with machine guns preloaded with blanks. When the KLF were awarded "Best British Group" honors later that night,

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view and to be conceptual with a picture. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

A smile is not true or false in the manner in which a conceptual meaning is true or false. It is truth in the sense in which one can say that a person is true, a thing is true. But it is usually not true in the sense in which a proposition is true or false.

Un jour, j'irai vivre en Théorie, car en Théorie, tout se passe bien.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

Second, there is a general tendency to think that the NAME itself can evoke, invoke, and provides what might be called conscious cognitive mental access INTO the conceptual realities that have been named as things-in-themselves. This MAY be workable depending on what is involved, but it tends to be unworkable if conceptual realities are NOT discrete things-in- themselves.

Thus all apparent things that appear or exist are empty of any essence, and have only a conceptual or nominal identity. Not the slightest distinction exists between the designation and the nature of things that it symbolizes. For there is a constant coemergence, which cannot be realized by external means.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.