All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the…

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Julius Veal

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

— Joni Mitchell

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

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

— Dana Carvey

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

— Tim Wise

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

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

I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really…

— Natsuo Kirino

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but…

— Felix Frankfurter

The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all about themes,…

— Michael Haneke

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are…

— Jean Dubuffet