Life is an abstract.

“I wondered how my research into the mathematical theory of a game might change my life. In the abstract, life is a mixture of…

— Edward O. Thorp

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization…

— George Edward Woodberry

“11. Life in the Concrete. Life in the concrete, which we are living, greatly differs from life in the abstract, which exists only in…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“My life is an abstract life. I am avoiding it everyday and it’s avoiding me everyday.”

— Shankar Lamichhane

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,…

— Alexander Calder

The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as…

— Anthony W. Ivins

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

— Tim Wise

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

— Dana Carvey

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the…

— Paul Klee

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

— Joni Mitchell

“Happy is very abstract, you can't touch it.”

— Julius Veal

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the…

— Robinson Jeffers

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

— Sun Ra

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

— Anonymous

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas…

— Anonymous