Abstract Quotes · Page 11

Crime and the effect on the community, and the need for law enforcement - those are not abstract concepts or political slogans…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

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

— J. M. Coetzee

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking;…

— Werner Herzog

I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it…

— Kevin Morby

The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more…

— Jenny Hval

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture.…

— I. M. Pei

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

— Bill Gaede

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

— Elaine Pagels

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . .…

— Jorge Luis Borges

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of…

— Michael Parenti

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm…

— D. H. Lawrence

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more…

— Eric Clapton

I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At…

— Costa-Gavras

I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action…

— Milton Resnick

'Europe '72' was a super influential record full of fantastic songs and amazing experimental musicianship. I always valued both of those aspects…

— Lee Ranaldo

Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a…

— William James

If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change.…

— Sharon Salzberg

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but…

— Michel Chion

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that…

— Frank Herbert

Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an automobile. Separate…

— Natalie Goldberg

One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former…

— Marq de Villiers

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an…

— Paul Tillich

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

— Claes Oldenburg

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

— Howard Berman

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme…

— Patricia Wentworth

It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.

— J. D. Vance

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

— Adolph Gottlieb

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

— Pierre Alechinsky

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

— Greg Gutfeld

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the…

— Alexander Herzen

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such…

— Richard Schmid

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

— Brice Marden

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that…

— William Hazlitt

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

— Stephen Hawking

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art…

— Jean Dubuffet