Abstract Quotes

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

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

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.

Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.