Abstract Quotes · Page 17

I never talk about my money! It is interesting how awkward it is to talk about it, even though I talk about…

— Sallie Krawcheck

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

— Neil Young

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to…

— Virgil Thomson

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

— George Lakoff

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

— Jackson Pollock

I want kids to live through this character I've created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they…

— Kevin Abstract

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do…

— Eugene H. Peterson

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is…

— J. M. Coetzee

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what…

— Alfred North Whitehead

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from…

— George Ripley

I'm not religious in any way but I am very spiritual. Music is holy to me. It's like my religion. It's sacred.…

— BANKS

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion…

— John Searle

It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything…

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other…

— Shirley Jackson

What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures……

— Irena Klepfisz

Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do…

— Eric Drooker

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a…

— Jack Nicholson

I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be…

— Alain de Botton

The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any…

— Julian Huxley

Mark Tobey fills his canvases with elliptical, calligraphic lines, beautiful whirls that seem at first glance to be completely abstract and to…

— Rollo May

Obama's attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in…

— Michael Barone

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it…

— Kofi Annan

The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that…

— Elaine Equi

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

— David Hockney

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

— Robert Smithson

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality,…

— John Lanchester

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

— Jan Tschichold

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be…

— Anonymous

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

— Daniel Kemmis

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in…

— Alfred North Whitehead

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less…

— Pablo Picasso

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

— Mason Cooley

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

— Bob Dylan

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

— Katherine McCoy

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or…

— Herb Ritts