Abstract Quotes · Page 17

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

— Cecil Balmond

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and…

— Thomas Pynchon

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were…

— Frank Stella

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and…

— Malcolm Gladwell

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his…

— Dana Gioia

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to…

— Nicolas Cage

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

— Deepak Chopra

My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in…

— Andrew Wyeth

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such…

— John Dewey

Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages…

— Robert Indiana

We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate…

— Ernest Everett Just

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this…

— Ben Nicholson

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but…

— Emmanuel Lubezki

“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I…

— Mark Rothko

That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure…

— Irvine Welsh

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it…

— Oscar Wilde

I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper…

— Paul Halmos

Indonesian people are living in constant fear, in horror. Often they do not realize it, because this state of mind, this 'living…

— Andre Vltchek

In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw.…

— Barbara Holland

Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the…

— Jurgen Habermas

The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'.…

— Willem de Kooning

“...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an automobile. Separate…

— Natalie Goldberg

One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former…

— Marq de Villiers

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of…

— Lincoln Kirstein

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

— Stephenie Meyer

I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

— Pamela Druckerman

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract…

— China Mieville

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were…

— Henry Flynt

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

I feel like there's a lot of albums that are like 'woo! we're young, let's have fun' and there's a lot of…

— Nina Nesbitt

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

— Elizabeth Warren

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great…

— Thomas Carlyle

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

— Robert Motherwell

His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.

— Rachel Caine

There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of…

— Brian Greene

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

— Virginia Woolf

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which…

— Walter Darby Bannard

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.

— Anna Todd

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what…

— Stephen Gaghan

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

— Lady Hester Stanhope