Abstract Quotes · Page 20

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a…

— Helene Grimaud

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

— Barack Obama

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not…

— Chuck Close

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

— Anonymous

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were…

— Larry Rivers

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand…

— Roy Lichtenstein

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe…

— John Keats

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract…

— Irena Klepfisz

Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME…

— Elisabeth Leamy

To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America…

— Arne Glimcher

Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great…

— John Carmack

Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the…

— Johan Huizinga

I don't have to think too hard to keep my writing within a certain narrative thread. That happens because certain words trigger…

— Luke Temple

The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as…

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death…

— Charlie Kaufman

“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or…

— Paul Johnson

The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,…

— Orlando Figes

Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on…

— Jonathan Franzen

I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I love going to the runway shows. It's not so much for me a shopping trip as it is the appreciation of…

— Scott Schuman

Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion…

— Walter Pater

Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,…

— Bret Easton Ellis

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

— Thomas Pynchon

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to…

— Robert Motherwell

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an…

— Robert Genn

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear…

— Yves Saint Laurent

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

— Robert Motherwell

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

— Anonymous

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

— Terry Pratchett

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes…

— Anonymous

Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus…

— Daniel H. Pink

I have enormous affection for Bill Simmons and not just in an abstract way but a very specific way.

— Chris Connelly

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

— Timothy Gowers

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

— Eric Cantona

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to…

— Feist

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced…

— Benjamin Wiker

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

— Theodor Adorno