Abstract Quotes · Page 33

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time…

— Marc Chagall

Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently…

— Stanton T. Friedman

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

— Marcel Duchamp

It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's…

— Tim Burton

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach…

— Jason Reitman

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and…

— Steven Pinker

I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by…

— Michel Gondry

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

— Jackson Pollock

It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other…

— Shirley Jackson

... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand…

— Gerhard Richter

All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order…

— Henry Moore

The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological,…

— Auguste Comte

In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I…

— Richard Diebenkorn

We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions…

— Giacomo Balla

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining…

— David Graeber

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a…

— Louis Aragon

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

— Theodore Roosevelt

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

— Bill Gaede

How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out…

— Ellen Goodman

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

— Anonymous

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

— Elizabeth Warren

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth;…

— Rudolf Nureyev

I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take…

— Jason Shawn Alexander