Abstract Quotes · Page 6

fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

— Elizabeth Bowen

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

— John Green

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

— Lance Henriksen

“Cause sometimes what makes you two is shadow and you.”

— Jayson lobo

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.

— Twyla Tharp

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

— Dennis Prager

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

— Anonymous

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

— Larry Rivers

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so…

— Lydia Davis

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that…

— Jose Parla

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

— Meyer Schapiro

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue…

— Jonas Mekas

Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract…

— Aleister Crowley

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

— Angela Rayner

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

— Virginia Gildersleeve

I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in…

— Sean William Scott

The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published…

— Tim Berners-Lee

Just 'Hear' This!!!! There was a Deer, Whose ear sensed a Bear, Deer froze with fear, Bear came near. Negotiated Deer, Dear…

— Mohit Sharma

If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power…

— Arne Glimcher

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the…

— Sergei Eisenstein

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower…

— Francisco Varela

What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which…

— C. S. Lewis

“Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall…

— Clarice Lispector

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the…

— David Hume

Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as…

— Michel Foucault

Centralize property in the hands of a few and the millions are under bondage to property - a bondage as absolute and…

— Lewis Henry Morgan

The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans,…

— Gabor Mate

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The subjects in my work appear as unidentified ghosts that can't be said to be of this world. I've decided to call…

— Hyon Gyon

Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes, [gift] with depth is all. Memory.”

— Monaristw

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you…

— Jackson Pollock

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.

— Hilda Doolittle

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

— Dmitry Medvedev

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

— Melissa Brown

Komodo Dragon Walk is sexier than any Cat Walk.

— Mohit Sharma