Abstract Quotes · Page 14

We are not a single-issue party that puts abstract policy ahead of the working lives of people. We are not bitter, frightened…

— Anthony Albanese

We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

— Katherine Dunn

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

— Wassily Kandinsky

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

— Ralph Gibson

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

— Wendell Berry

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

— David Sedaris

In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Transcendental meditation is one particular form of mantra meditation that allows your mind to experience progressively abstract fields of awareness. And ultimately…

— Deepak Chopra

The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the…

— Francoise Mouly

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,…

— Alan Watts

At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to…

— Herbert Marcuse

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of…

— Lincoln Kirstein

I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something…

— Gerhard Richter

The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only…

— Harmony Korine

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

— Robert Genn

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

— Camille Paglia

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

— Jonah Hill

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of…

— Paul Engle

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange…

— Joel Sternfeld

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the…

— Richard P. Feynman

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

— Yves Klein

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is…

— Donald Byrd

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

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

— Claes Oldenburg

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

— Edgar Alwin Payne

“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

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

— Daniel Tammet

Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion's…

— Hilary Farr