Abstract Quotes · Page 13

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

— Tom Stoppard

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city,…

— Ai Weiwei

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far…

— Le Corbusier

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

— Marcel Duchamp

As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract…

— Virgil Miller Newton

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

— Paulo Coelho

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

— Amy Sillman

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My…

— Henry Adams

Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract…

— Robert Breault

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical…

— William James

Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language…

— Chuck Thompson

I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and…

— Gunter Brus

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make…

— Jose Padilha

I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What…

— Neil Farber

There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of…

— Fernando Pessoa

Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death…

— Marcel Proust

An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general…

— John Updike

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the…

— Madame de Stael

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened…

— Noam Chomsky

In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get…

— Gary Shteyngart

'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should…

— Richard M. Nixon

“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to…

— Steve Hagen

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of…

— Gustave Moreau

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a…

— John Green

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed…

— Mark Edward

I grew up in the '90s and remember the lyrics back then were so abstract and open to interpretation. That always drove…

— Jens Lekman

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

— Bjarke Ingels

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the…

— Ryan Reynolds

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

— Christopher Nolan

The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it…

— Bill Vaughan

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded…

— Arto Lindsay

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

— James Nachtwey

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto…

— Elizabeth Hawes

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but…

— Karl Marx

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

— Mort Sahl

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of…

— Nicolas Cage

I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd…

— Kevin de Leon

I just want to be Kevin Abstract and exist and help as many people as possible who are struggling with whatever they're…

— Kevin Abstract

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid,…

— Martin Amis