Abstract Quotes · Page 18

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

— Barack Obama

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a…

— Helene Grimaud

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear…

— Yves Saint Laurent

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

— Robert Motherwell

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe…

— John Keats

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand…

— Roy Lichtenstein

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

— Thomas Pynchon

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to…

— Robert Motherwell

Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have…

— Vassily Ivanchuk

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external,…

— Oliver Sacks

I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect…

— Jonathan Van Ness

Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group…

— Terry Jones

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or…

— Igor Babailov

We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to…

— Q-Tip

Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as…

— Rudy Rucker

I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try…

— Spencer Krug

Touring was an abstract idea for me in the beginning. I didn't know where it was going to take me, but I…

— Justin Nozuka

The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine…

— John Maynard Keynes

People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which,…

— Joan Didion

The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds…

— Peter Cameron

Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he…

— Leo Tolstoy

I am caught in a terrific bind of characterologically and rationally needing to think in the most comprehensive terms possible, forming a…

— Kenny Smith

Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the…

— Charles Baudelaire

It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an…

— Robert Genn

'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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Daniel Kemmis

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

— Katherine McCoy

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— George Lakoff

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

— Jackson Pollock

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

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

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