Abstract Quotes · Page 21

You can't buy your privacy back. Because I was already doing OK, and to have this abstract amount of money now, I…

— David Choe

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

— Auguste Comte

Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract…

— James Ransone

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

— John F. Kennedy

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

— Gulzar

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into…

— Herb Ritts

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction,…

— Joe Bradley

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

— Robert Motherwell

When I write plays, I'm already seeing the shapes on stage, of the actors and their interaction, and so on and so…

— Wole Soyinka

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 per cent security and also then have 100 per cent privacy…

— Barack Obama

From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective…

— Vidya Balan

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which…

— Theodor Adorno

Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had…

— Philip K. Dick

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent…

— Milan Kundera

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other…

— Nicola Chiaromonte

Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical…

— Peter Cheeke

Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has…

— Steven Rinella

All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic…

— Neal Ascherson

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

The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,…

— Thucydides

At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the…

— Max Horkheimer

“Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom"…

— Erich Fromm

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see…

— Giorgio Morandi

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds

— Marshall McLuhan

I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.

— Jenny Hval

Cryptic messages and abstract statements are littered throughout the music of Happy Birthday, but it hasn't made the band's sun-baked pop-rock any…

— Anthony Fantano

“Merry a mind is of a weeping willow roots raising concrete be in fit out all abstract.”

— Antonia Perdu

You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is…

— Lazaro Hernandez

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

— Josephine Herbst

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

— William James

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

— Albert Camus

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of…

— Aristotle

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were…

— Larry Rivers

I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not…

— Chuck Close

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

— Anonymous

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what…

— David Ogilvy

Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to…

— Bill T. Jones

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of…

— William James