Abstract Quotes · Page 24

There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to…

— Sufjan Stevens

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

— Robert Reynolds

Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.…

— Agnes Martin

I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.

— Colin Marston

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect…

— Jonathan Van Ness

...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles…

— Virginia Gildersleeve

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

— Ben Nicholson

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

— Thomas Pynchon

But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on…

— Romare Bearden

Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never…

— Anonymous

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of…

— Nicolas Cage

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

Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without…

— Karl Marx

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

— Erich Fromm

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

— Dana Gioia

Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and…

— Edsger Dijkstra

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes…

— Anonymous

When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

— Nicola Chiaromonte

It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead…

— Steve Jobs

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the…

— Flannery O'Connor

Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything…

— Faraaz Kazi