Quotes about Abstract

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Votes: 6

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.... Votes: 5

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. Votes: 4

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. Votes: 4

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. Votes: 4

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. Votes: 4

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. Votes: 4

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Votes: 4

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. Votes: 4

Abstract truth is the eye of reason. Votes: 3

Money is human happiness in the abstract. Votes: 3

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later. Votes: 3

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks. Votes: 3

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. Votes: 3

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past. Votes: 3

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible. Votes: 3

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Votes: 3

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. Votes: 3

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again. Votes: 3

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common. Votes: 3

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. Votes: 3

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. Votes: 3

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. Votes: 3

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. Votes: 3

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Votes: 3

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. Votes: 3

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. Votes: 3

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Votes: 3

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract. Votes: 3

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts. Votes: 3

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist. Votes: 3

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. Votes: 3

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. Votes: 3

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. Votes: 3

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. Votes: 3

Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! Votes: 3

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. Votes: 3

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. Votes: 3

Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.) Votes: 3

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. Votes: 3

All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting. Votes: 3

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. Votes: 3

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. Votes: 3

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art. Votes: 3

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. Votes: 3

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation. Votes: 3

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. Votes: 3

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. Votes: 3

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout. Votes: 3

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman. Votes: 3

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. Votes: 3

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. Votes: 3

Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view. Votes: 3

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!" Votes: 3

'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts. Votes: 3

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities. Votes: 3

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing. Votes: 3

Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space. Votes: 3

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. Votes: 3

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting. Votes: 3

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. Votes: 3

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts tot the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art. Votes: 3

One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason. Votes: 3

Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential. Votes: 3

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground Votes: 3

Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography. Votes: 3

Cause sometimes what makes you two is shadow and you. Votes: 1

Silence is the best way to confabulate with the unseen. Votes: 1

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. Votes: 1

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am. Votes: 1

I feel like i am parked diagonally in a parallel universe Votes: 1

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key. Votes: 1

Merry a mind isof a weeping willowroots raising concretebe in fit outall abstract. Votes: 1

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. Votes: 1

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they? Votes: 1

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. Votes: 1

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. Votes: 1

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. Votes: 1

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas. Votes: 1

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. Votes: 1

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. Votes: 1

Before, I could only guess oh who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am. Votes: 1

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. Votes: 1

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea. Votes: 1

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. Votes: 1

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. Votes: 1

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. Votes: 1

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. Votes: 1

Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters. Votes: 1

This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies;Both seas within Him rest, and yet in that small pool He lies. Votes: 1

My brain is divided into two butterflies, and both are in love with your rose-shaped heart. If you've got the garden, I've got my whole life. Votes: 1

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them. Votes: 1

I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write. Votes: 1

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. Votes: 1

Certain voices heardare heardnot becausethey are phonetic...But,from one soulthey head,to another,in the form of magic.(Poem: When, When a not, Book: Ginger and Honey) Votes: 1

But it is a pipe.""No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever. Votes: 1

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. Votes: 1

Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day. Votes: 1

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree. Votes: 1

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. Votes: 1

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. Votes: 1

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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 Votes: 1

I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences. Votes: 1

I paint abstract expressions. Votes: 0

Human intellect is incurably abstract. Votes: 0

Funerals are all abstract ceremony. Votes: 0

All good art is abstract. Votes: 0

Nothing is more abstract than reality. Votes: 0

The abstract kills, the concrete saves. Votes: 0

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness Votes: 0

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes. Votes: 0

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity. Votes: 0

All good art is abstract in its structure. Votes: 0

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. Votes: 0

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure. Votes: 0

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings. Votes: 0

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. Votes: 0

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes. Votes: 0

All men in the abstract are just and good. Votes: 0

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics! Votes: 0

I try to make concrete that which is abstract. Votes: 0

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream. Votes: 0

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness. Votes: 0

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes Votes: 0

I like it when I can get really abstract. Votes: 0

Art is only abstract when you look the other way. Votes: 0

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. Votes: 0

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality. Votes: 0

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. Votes: 0

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee. Votes: 0

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. Votes: 0

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer. Votes: 0

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. Votes: 0

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound. Votes: 0

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality. Votes: 0

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. Votes: 0

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract. Votes: 0

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. Votes: 0

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. Votes: 0

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract Votes: 0

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. Votes: 0

I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract. Votes: 0

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few. Votes: 0

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself. Votes: 0

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them. Votes: 0

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. Votes: 0

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel. Votes: 0

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete. Votes: 0

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal. Votes: 0

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth. Votes: 0

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper. Votes: 0

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. Votes: 0

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe. Votes: 0

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi. Votes: 0

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. Votes: 0

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life. Votes: 0

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. Votes: 0

Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.One's individuality absolutely leaves one. Votes: 0

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. Votes: 0

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do. Votes: 0

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different. Votes: 0

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered. Votes: 0

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. Votes: 0

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. Votes: 0

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right. Votes: 0

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter. Votes: 0

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. Votes: 0

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. Votes: 0

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. Votes: 0

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments. Votes: 0

fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me. Votes: 0

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it. Votes: 0

We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice. Votes: 0

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components. Votes: 0

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. Votes: 0

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not. Votes: 0

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. Votes: 0

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. Votes: 0

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. Votes: 0

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. Votes: 0

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. Votes: 0

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction. Votes: 0

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense. Votes: 0

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning. Votes: 0

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. Votes: 0

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own. Votes: 0

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task. Votes: 0

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. Votes: 0

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task. Votes: 0

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. Votes: 0

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning. Votes: 0

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. Votes: 0

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. Votes: 0

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. Votes: 0

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact. Votes: 0

I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding. Votes: 0

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies. Votes: 0

The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people. Votes: 0

You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win Votes: 0

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is. Votes: 0

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. Votes: 0

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. Votes: 0

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things. Votes: 0

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need. Votes: 0

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. Votes: 0

People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration. Votes: 0

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! Votes: 0

I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. Votes: 0

Bond girl' is a bit abstract, what does that mean, you see a girl in a bikini? Votes: 0

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. Votes: 0

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds Votes: 0

I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense. Votes: 0

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. Votes: 0

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. Votes: 0

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions. Votes: 0

Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead. Votes: 0

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless. Votes: 0

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract. Votes: 0

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. Votes: 0

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. Votes: 0

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man Votes: 0

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly. Votes: 0

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art. Votes: 0

My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky. Votes: 0

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves. Votes: 0

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Votes: 0

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. Votes: 0

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. Votes: 0

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. Votes: 0

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Votes: 0

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought. Votes: 0

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. Votes: 0

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. Votes: 0

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. Votes: 0

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws Votes: 0

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words. Votes: 0

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results. Votes: 0

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract. Votes: 0

I don't abstract from anything."¦I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface. Votes: 0

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. Votes: 0

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist. Votes: 0

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. Votes: 0

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract. Votes: 0

We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition... Votes: 0

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract. Votes: 0

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. Votes: 0

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. Votes: 0

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. Votes: 0

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. Votes: 0

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. Votes: 0

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed. Votes: 0

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger. Votes: 0

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. Votes: 0

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain. Votes: 0

His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said. Votes: 0

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. Votes: 0

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract. Votes: 0

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. Votes: 0

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. Votes: 0

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect. Votes: 0

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract. Votes: 0

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. Votes: 0

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women. Votes: 0

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. Votes: 0

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see. Votes: 0

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action. Votes: 0

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. Votes: 0

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality. Votes: 0

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline. Votes: 0

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. Votes: 0

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat. Votes: 0

I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen. Votes: 0

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact. Votes: 0

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. Votes: 0

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. Votes: 0

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless. Votes: 0

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know. Votes: 0

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. Votes: 0

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality. Votes: 0

For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air. Votes: 0

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. Votes: 0

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! Votes: 0

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there. Votes: 0

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life. Votes: 0

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying. Votes: 0

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. Votes: 0

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level. Votes: 0

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo. Votes: 0

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man. Votes: 0

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures. Votes: 0

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason. Votes: 0

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. Votes: 0

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody. Votes: 0

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. Votes: 0

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. Votes: 0

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. Votes: 0

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube. Votes: 0

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern. Votes: 0

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. Votes: 0

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. Votes: 0

Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy. Votes: 0

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. Votes: 0

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. Votes: 0

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete. Votes: 0

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint. Votes: 0

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not. Votes: 0

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business. Votes: 0

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy Votes: 0

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine Votes: 0

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation. Votes: 0

In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos Votes: 0

The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable. Votes: 0

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying. Votes: 0

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm. Votes: 0

Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases. Votes: 0

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred, Votes: 0

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication. Votes: 0

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. Votes: 0

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority. Votes: 0

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. Votes: 0

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject. Votes: 0

Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs and values. Votes: 0

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture. Votes: 0

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. Votes: 0

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture. Votes: 0

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. Votes: 0

As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract reasoning skill. Votes: 0

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible. Votes: 0

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. Votes: 0

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations. Votes: 0

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. Votes: 0

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry. Votes: 0

Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force. Votes: 0

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world. Votes: 0

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice. Votes: 0

Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart. Votes: 0

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. Votes: 0

A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes. Votes: 0

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves Votes: 0

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places. Votes: 0

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator. Votes: 0

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all. Votes: 0

You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is a difficult process. Votes: 0

People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security. Votes: 0

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations. Votes: 0

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience. Votes: 0

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative. Votes: 0

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack. Votes: 0

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society . Votes: 0

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures. Votes: 0

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. Votes: 0

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. Votes: 0

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think! Votes: 0

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. Votes: 0

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher. Votes: 0

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences. Votes: 0

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible. Votes: 0

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares. Votes: 0

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring. Votes: 0

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention. Votes: 0

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first. Votes: 0

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. Votes: 0

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing. Votes: 0

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract. Votes: 0

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine. Votes: 0

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life. Votes: 0

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui. Votes: 0

It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity. Votes: 0

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon. Votes: 0

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that. Votes: 0

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts. Votes: 0

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine. Votes: 0

Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments. Votes: 0

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them. Votes: 0

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration. Votes: 0

Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to parts of abstract equations. Votes: 0

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature. Votes: 0

You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here. Votes: 0

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction. Votes: 0

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract. Votes: 0

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school. Votes: 0

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture. Votes: 0

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it. Votes: 0

Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be Votes: 0

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs. Votes: 0

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. Votes: 0

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless. Votes: 0

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract. Votes: 0

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. Votes: 0

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute. Votes: 0

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know. Votes: 0

All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability. Votes: 0

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. Votes: 0

Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be accused of copying. Votes: 0

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination. Votes: 0

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall. Votes: 0

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium. Votes: 0

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing. Votes: 0

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves. Votes: 0

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it. Votes: 0

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride. Votes: 0

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now. Votes: 0

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can. Votes: 0

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it. Votes: 0

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall Votes: 0

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow. Votes: 0

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one. Votes: 0

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is. Votes: 0

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive. Votes: 0

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen. Votes: 0

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator. Votes: 0

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. Votes: 0

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. Votes: 0

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality. Votes: 0

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all. Votes: 0

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. Votes: 0

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it. Votes: 0

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract. Votes: 0

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years. Votes: 0

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints. Votes: 0

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway. Votes: 0

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving. Votes: 0

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic. Votes: 0

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal. Votes: 0

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract Votes: 0

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise. Votes: 0

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. Votes: 0

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form. Votes: 0

The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings. Votes: 0

We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration. Votes: 0

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch. Votes: 0

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable. Votes: 0

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts. Votes: 0

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist. Votes: 0

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books. Votes: 0

A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract. Votes: 0

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books. Votes: 0

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings. Votes: 0

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. Votes: 0

Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think. Votes: 0

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws. Votes: 0

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs. Votes: 0

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker. Votes: 0

Evil is abstract but existent. It's a negativity: untruth, dishonesty, abuse of trust. Evil, for us, isn't in-built - into people, into the cosmic scheme, but is a violation. Votes: 0

Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us. Votes: 0

There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant. Votes: 0

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul. Votes: 0

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction Votes: 0

Information doesn't deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way. Votes: 0

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation. Votes: 0

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract. Votes: 0

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people Votes: 0

I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me. Votes: 0

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. Votes: 0

The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded. Votes: 0

By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree. Votes: 0

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally. Votes: 0

Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see. Votes: 0

My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly. Votes: 0

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche. Votes: 0

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible. Votes: 0

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit. Votes: 0

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces? Votes: 0

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. Votes: 0

Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking. Votes: 0

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin.. Votes: 0

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye. Votes: 0

Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom. Votes: 0

Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear. Votes: 0

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand. Votes: 0

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living. Votes: 0

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract. Votes: 0

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. Votes: 0

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. Votes: 0

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past. Votes: 0

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it. Votes: 0

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only. Votes: 0

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow. Votes: 0

The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living. Votes: 0

The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty or not pretty. The shape of it is boring. Votes: 0

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. Votes: 0

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives. Votes: 0

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life. Votes: 0

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me. Votes: 0

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it. Votes: 0

I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand. Votes: 0

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! Votes: 0