Abstract Quotes

After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.

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.

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.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

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

The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time socially necessary for its production.

As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.

Not all doors open in the same direction and with the same effort!

It was in the horizon of existence, that the Big Bang must have created our souls, we loved each other like the plane of time doesn't hold a fleck of control over us.

You need a body to preserve your soul, not a set of abstract principles.

Art has a voice - let it speak.

A great poet can give wings to abstract thoughts that touch a reader’s mind with the ecstasy of joy.

Philosophy is the abstract art of thoughts and perceptions that form colors of words and languages that paint the canvas of our minds.

When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been bestowed with.

Life’s contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

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

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

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.

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)

Sometimes, some of times in life are Lifetime!

Cause sometimes what makes you two is shadow and you.

And what's beyond vastness? It shrinks...

Linear’s defeated form The intangible reality rise.'' ~ Wanderer

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.

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

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

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.

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

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

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am