Abstract Quotes · Page 27

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract…

— Gilles Deleuze

Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else…

— Daniel Tammet

I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of…

— Anonymous

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

— Vladimir Lenin

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is…

— Steve Jobs

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every…

— William Butler Yeats

When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum…

— Niels Bohr

Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status, and before I had a pager, You could find…

— Q-Tip

Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental…

— Robert Longo

Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group…

— Terry Jones

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

— Ann Brashares

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement…

— Maria Montessori

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements…

— Werner Heisenberg

'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no…

— Richard Diebenkorn

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality,…

— John Lanchester

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

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that…

— George Edward Woodberry

With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that…

— Michael Patrick King

Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous…

— George Dantzig

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer