Abstract Quotes · Page 18

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets…

— Daniel Tosh

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're…

— Girl Talk

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read…

— Clement Greenberg

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't…

— Lucien Smith

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to…

— Virgil Thomson

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

— Neil Young

I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about…

— Sallie Krawcheck

The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?'…

— Grace Slick

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities,…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and…

— Lee Ranaldo

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with…

— Epicurus

Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a…

— Philip Glass

In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the…

— Ada Lovelace

Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It…

— William Cobbett

The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the…

— Francoise Mouly

At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to…

— Herbert Marcuse

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,…

— Alan Watts

Transcendental meditation is one particular form of mantra meditation that allows your mind to experience progressively abstract fields of awareness. And ultimately…

— Deepak Chopra

With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I would say that it is important to have it in your mind, what your attention is and what you want to…

— Justin Nozuka

To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I…

— Michael J. Fox

I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always…

— Michel Gondry

People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.

— Joe Bradley

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that…

— Kurt Wagner

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

— Ugo Betti

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

— Clive James

The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly…

— Jacob Weisberg

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents…

— Barack Obama

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

— Georges Simenon

I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

— Robert Ryman

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

— Sandra Bernhard

People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably…

— James Gosling

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

— Keaton Stromberg

Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to…

— Feist

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

— Eric Cantona

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

— Theodor Adorno

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced…

— Benjamin Wiker

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

— Timothy Gowers