Abstract Quotes

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

— C. S. Lewis

I paint abstract expressions.

— Billy Zane

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

— Sylvia Plath

“Life is an abstract.”

— Adi

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I do not see scales as abstract.

— Anonymous

“All great art is abstract.”

— Jean Renoir

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

— Giorgio Morandi

“Meron bang taong walang itsura? Anu yun, abstract?”

— Eros S. Atalia

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

— Gerard Way

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

— Jean Cocteau

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Julia Stiles

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

— Dmitry Medvedev

When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.

— Kemp Muhl

Love is abstract. It is something that we cannot touch nor carry.

— Lance Mariano

Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to…

— Scott Adams

The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only…

— Marc Bloch

Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find…

— Roger Scruton

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

— Yiyun Li

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

— Merce Cunningham

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

— John Ziman

I don't like videos that explain the song. I like it to be kind of abstract, like a painting.

— Shavo Odadjian

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion…

— John Searle

I'm not religious in any way but I am very spiritual. Music is holy to me. It's like my religion. It's sacred.…

— BANKS

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from…

— George Ripley

Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything…

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he…

— Jeffrey Rosen

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is…

— J. M. Coetzee

For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions,…

— Goh Chok Tong

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to…

— Steve Hagen

'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should…

— Richard M. Nixon

In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…

— Gary Shteyngart

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened…

— Noam Chomsky

We depend on manly characteristics to keep us safe. Every single one of the dead firemen heroes on 9/11 were men. This…

— Kate O'Beirne

“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the…

— Eric Temple Bell

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and…

— Allen W. Wood

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at…

— John Kenneth Galbraith