Abstract Quotes · Page 14

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

— Yves Klein

What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.

— Camille Paglia

In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

— Robert Genn

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

— Wassily Kandinsky

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be…

— David Sedaris

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal…

— Wendell Berry

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject…

— Jessica Livingston

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian…

— Russell Smith

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer…

— Anonymous

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different…

— Brie Larson

I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive…

— Carl Jung

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not…All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or…

— Yves Klein

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there…

— Albert Schweitzer

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to…

— Max Born

I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something…

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Noam Chomsky

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,…

— Alan Watts

At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to…

— Herbert Marcuse

The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the…

— Francoise Mouly

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of…

— Lincoln Kirstein

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the…

— Albert Einstein

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

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

— Ralph Gibson

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

— Dana Carvey

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at…

— Ben Silbermann

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

— James Bryant Conant

I admire artists who really take risks and aren't afraid to do smaller movies and obscure, abstract things. It would be really…

— Britne Oldford

We are not a single-issue party that puts abstract policy ahead of the working lives of people. We are not bitter, frightened…

— Anthony Albanese

We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

— Katherine Dunn

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical…music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

— Edgard Varese

My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in…

— Andrew Wyeth

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to…

— Nicolas Cage

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

— Deepak Chopra

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and…

— Malcolm Gladwell

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his…

— Dana Gioia

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were…

— Frank Stella

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and…

— Thomas Pynchon

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

— Cecil Balmond