Abstract Quotes · Page 17

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

— Jacob Weisberg

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

— Kurt Wagner

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

— Ugo Betti

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

— Daniel Kemmis

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

— Katherine McCoy

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less…

— Pablo Picasso

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

— Mason Cooley

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer…

— Anonymous

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian…

— Russell Smith

I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive…

— Carl Jung

A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract…

— E. B. White

From the very beginning, I said there are two tracks of reform: there's the political and the technical. I don't believe the…

— Edward Snowden

I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across…

— William C. Wright

Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in…

— Roger Ballen

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries…

— Paul Rogat Loeb

It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other…

— Shirley Jackson

Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when…

— Lauren Groff

The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting to give psychoanalytic answers where economic, technical, or…

— Erich Fromm

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were…

— Anthony Giddens

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the…

— Ad Reinhardt

A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream…

— Neal Stephenson

There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you…

— Laura Nyro

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

— Bob Dylan

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

— Jan Tschichold

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality,…

— John Lanchester

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

— Robert Smithson

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be…

— Anonymous

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do…

— Eugene H. Peterson

I want kids to live through this character I've created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they…

— Kevin Abstract

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it…

— Kofi Annan

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

— David Hockney

The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that…

— Elaine Equi

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

— George Lakoff

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

— Jackson Pollock

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

— Al Capp