Abstract Quotes · Page 41

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

— Mark Rothko

But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract…

— Jonah Goldberg

Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting…

— Oswald Spengler

All good art is abstract.

— John Newman

An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part…

— Nancy Pearcey

Choose paintings, sculptures, realistic or abstract or animal images woven into fabrics, rather than a faux zebra rug or a sullied Lion's…

— Hilary Farr

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and…

— Roy Blount, Jr

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

— Dalai Lama

But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth…

— Ada Lovelace

I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re…

— William Eggleston

When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done.…

— Georg Baselitz

Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of…

— Alex Grey

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent…

— Susan Sontag

If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the…

— Lance Henriksen

People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents…

— Daniel Kahneman

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

— Edmund Burke

I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features…

— Noam Chomsky

When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by…

— James R Newman

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

— Ann Radcliffe

Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have…

— Kenny Smith

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear…

— Yves Saint Laurent

As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to…

— Rene Dubos

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm…

— D. H. Lawrence

The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an…

— Lauren F. Winner

People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues…

— Charlie Kirk