Abstract Quotes · Page 11

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

— Bill Gaede

The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.

— Kevin Abstract

“He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn’t written him a letter, it was…

— Rainbow Rowell Eleanor and Park

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that…

— David Lynch

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is…

— Pam Gems

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

— Nora Ephron

Crime and the effect on the community, and the need for law enforcement - those are not abstract concepts or political slogans…

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me…

— Noam Chomsky

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with…

— J. C. Ryle

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really…

— Francis Bacon

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a…

— Walter Pater

The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that…

— Alexander Morozevich

If I play the melody, even if I play it in an abstract manner, it's instantly recognizable. Even when I was studying…

— Stefon Harris

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

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

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . .…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper…

— Paul Halmos

Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education…

— Amartya Sen

Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can…

— Robert Anton Wilson

We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in…

— William James

The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man…

— Geoffrey Jellicoe

One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former…

— Marq de Villiers

“...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an automobile. Separate…

— Natalie Goldberg

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

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

Mirzya' was an abstract musical. In the end, it was not a conventional film, so it cannot or is unlikely to get…

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

— Teresa de Lauretis

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in…

— Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm…

— Jim Jarmusch

I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.

— Steve Jobs

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

— Don DeLillo

I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because…

— Esperanza Spalding

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an…

— Mary GrandPre

You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win

— Percy Foreman

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

— Rahm Emanuel

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts…

— Anonymous

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

— Anais Nin

Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

— Eric Drooker

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

— Vladimir Lenin