Abstract Quotes · Page 21

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so…

— Lydia Davis

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that…

— Jose Parla

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

— Meyer Schapiro

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue…

— Jonas Mekas

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

— Angela Rayner

Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract…

— Aleister Crowley

The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn…

— Carroll Quigley

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

— William Irwin Thompson

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

In a first pregnancy, you don't have a child yet, so you can nap and see movies and exercise. The notion of…

— Kelli Williams

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space.…

— Rei Kawakubo

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions…

— Ada Lovelace

Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have…

— Kenny Smith

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War…

— Jerry Saltz

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique…

— Igor Stravinsky

Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a…

— Frank Stella

. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the…

— James A. Michener

What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or…

— Rei Kawakubo

Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat…

— Angela Carter

In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently…

— Charles Babbage

Happiness can seem like an abstract, transcendent notion, but in fact, I found that getting enough sleep (very important!!), getting exercise, not…

— Gretchen Rubin

There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers…

— Leo Buscaglia

This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value…

— Walter Russell

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

— Robert Motherwell

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

— Ezekiel Emanuel

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short…

— Dia Mirza

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception…

— William James

I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work.

— Kevin Abstract

My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a…

— Carlo Carra

The good thing I will say about the Chicago School is that it was always about the world, not about the abstract.

— Richard Thaler

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

— Ben Nicholson

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms…

— Robert Genn

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

— John Bargh

The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for…

— Henry Paulson

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence…

— Constantin Brancusi

Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.

— Steven Whitney