Abstract Quotes · Page 13

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

— James J. Gibson

I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it.…

— Raf Simons

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who…

— Edgar Alwin Payne

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

— Claes Oldenburg

“I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Joseph Joubert

Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it.…

— Andrea Dworkin

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that…

— Kurt Wagner

I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in…

— Sean William Scott

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these…

— Kenneth Tynan

If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,…

— Yukio Mishima

People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues…

— Charlie Kirk

In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we…

— Murray Gell-Mann

It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of…

— Johnny Flynn

I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about…

— Kerry Washington

I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal…

— Bob Dylan

Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without…

— Karl Marx

Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised…

— Dore Ashton

[About Swami Vivekanada:] I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it…

— Chittaranjan Das

Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do…

— Dan B. Allender

There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate…

— David E. Cooper

The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great.…

— Kenneth Clark

Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being…

— Richard Askey

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

— Ugo Betti

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

— Clive James

The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly…

— Jacob Weisberg

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

— Georges Simenon

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents…

— Barack Obama

I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

— Robert Ryman

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

— Sandra Bernhard

People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably…

— James Gosling

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

— Keaton Stromberg

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of…

— Brian Greene

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

— Rachel Caine

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

— Robert Motherwell

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

— Virginia Woolf

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

— Lady Hester Stanhope

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what…

— Stephen Gaghan

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which…

— Walter Darby Bannard