Abstract Quotes

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.

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

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

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

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.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

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.

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

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

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

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

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

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.

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

All good art is abstract.

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

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

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

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

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

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

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

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.

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.

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.

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.

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

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.

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

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

I like it when I can get really abstract.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.