{"quotes":[{"text":"Life’s contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["abstract","building","ceiling","contentment","domed","edifice","insane","insane-world","insanity","life","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","madness","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":9439,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase 'I love you,' it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz.","author":"James Lee Schmidt","tags":["abstract","art","artist","books","edit","editor","humor","i-love-you","instagram","instagram","instaquote","james-joyce","life","literature","love","paint","painting","picture","relationships","surreal","ulysses","visual","write","writer","writing"],"id":24532,"author_id":"James+Lee+Schmidt"},{"text":"I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["abstract","abstraction","fear","fear-of-truth","god","truth"],"id":39820,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["abstract","breathe","broken","fatal-attraction","heart-beat","love","relationship","you-and-me"],"id":42148,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"},{"text":"Sometimes, some of times in life are Lifetime!","author":"Jasleen Kaur Gumber","tags":["abstract","life","lifetime","meaning","realisation","thinking","thoughts","time","truth"],"id":55623,"author_id":"Jasleen+Kaur+Gumber"},{"text":"Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and conquer.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["abstract","arbitrary","conquer","default","delusion","evil","good","humans","morality","provoke"],"id":58282,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water. Well, I've tried to express just that. If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirits.","author":"Constantin Brancusi","tags":["abstract","art","artist"],"id":77471,"author_id":"Constantin+Brancusi"},{"text":"And what's beyond vastness? It shrinks...","author":"Jasleen Kaur Gumber","tags":["abstract","identity","life","meaning"],"id":90511,"author_id":"Jasleen+Kaur+Gumber"},{"text":"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.","author":"Theodor Adorno","tags":["utopia","abstract","fulfilled "],"id":91870,"author_id":"Theodor+Adorno"},{"text":"Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.","author":"Philip K. Dick","tags":["abstract","concrete","humor","reality"],"id":96558,"author_id":"Philip+K.+Dick"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":60,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}