Abstract Quotes · Page 13

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

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

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

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

— Mason Cooley

I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the…

— Jenny Saville

That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract…

— Tim Burton

The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality…

— Adolf Hitler

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential…

— David Bohm

When you start to really travel and you get to these abstract like places in the world, you would see certain people's…

— Ice T

Ambient music is my favorite art form because there's no interface. It just commands you how to feel. There's no suggestion of…

— Matty Healy

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even…

— George Stigler

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite…

— Jeanette Winterson

When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy.…

— Richard Marcinko

The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be…

— Maimonides

The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but…

— Carl Jung

At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or…

— Anonymous

Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't…

— David Lynch

Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the…

— Jacques Barzun

Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous,…

— M. Scott Peck

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

— Bob Dylan

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 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

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more…

— Albert Einstein

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and…

— Lawren Harris

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

— Gerhard Richter

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality…

— Piet Mondrian

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

— Hans Hofmann

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him…

— Henri Poincare

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power…

— Paul Dirac

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant…

— Ben Shahn

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

— Ansel Adams

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or…

— Herb Ritts