Abstract Quotes

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

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

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

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

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.

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

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

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.

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

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.

"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.

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

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

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

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

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

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

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 .

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.

Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get herself or himself to the point of being able to put in the upsetting stuff.