Abstract Quotes · Page 15

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

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

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

— George Lakoff

The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that…

— Elaine Equi

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

— David Hockney

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it…

— Kofi Annan

One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs…

— Robert Smithson

God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this…

— Ravi Zacharias

What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called…

— Marlene Dumas

I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected…

— Anne Michaels

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word…

— Stephen Merchant

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any…

— Jackson Pollock

I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens…

— Jeffrey Kluger

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to…

— Marjane Satrapi

In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure.…

— Russell Kirk

Within a social structure, a familial structure, or a cultural structure of various kinds, there is a substitute for actual freedom. I…

— Katherine Dunn

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,…

— Francis Bacon

Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on…

— Charles D'Ambrosio

The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a…

— William James

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but…

— Michel Chion

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that…

— Frank Herbert

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

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

— Ellsworth Kelly

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do…

— Eugene H. Peterson

I want kids to live through this character I've created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they…

— Kevin Abstract

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty…

— Jean Giraudoux

A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or…

— Steven Soderbergh

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

— Alain de Lille

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

— Gore Vidal

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

— Al Capp

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the…

— Elizabeth McCracken

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns…

— Orson Welles

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

— Robert Reynolds

It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing…

— Robert Motherwell

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