Abstract Quotes
Abstract Quote of the day
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves
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.
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.
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.
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
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
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.
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.
I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
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.
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
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.
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.
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.
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.
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.
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.
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.
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
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.
The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.
Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.
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.
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.
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.
Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.
