Sentences with phrase «expression of abstract thought»

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The expression of art — the exploration of figurative and abstract thought in tangible external forms — is unique to human beings.

One should not in this connection let himself be deceived by the observation that the abstract thinking of the Greeks made it possible for them to understand in its purity the essence of the spiritual, and that therefore mythological, anthropomorphic ideas of God were abandoned by the Greeks, while in Judaism naïve mythological and anthropomorphic expressions about God, although they decrease, do not by any means disappear.

I) that Hegel identifies the law of contradiction as the alternative expression of the law of identity, insisting that both are synthetic rather than analytic, and that when each is thought through to its own inherent conclusion they both cease to be formal and abstract and, rather, transcend and negate themselves by making «contradiction» manifest as the root of all movement and life.

In his works, Lan successfully transmits traditional Chinese calligraphy's freehand strokes into the structure and expression of modern painting, resulting in an abstract language that marries the traditional and contemporary, simultaneously capturing the Chinese mind but appealing to the Western thought as well.

John Zinsser has always found maximum expression in reductive abstract painting, simplifying his visual language to convey clarity of thought and sensory excitement.