Abstract Quotes

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

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.

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

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

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.

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

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

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.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

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

I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

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

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

Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: "He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community." A community is not an abstract ideal.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

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

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

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

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 knowledge.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

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

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

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

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

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

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

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

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.

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