Abstract Quotes · Page 4

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

— Dennis Prager

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

— Aaron Huey

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

— Mike Svob

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

— Dmitry Medvedev

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.

— Hilda Doolittle

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

— Newt Gingrich

I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.

— Jeffrey Smart

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

— Willem de Kooning

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

— Ann Radcliffe

Mathematicians are stiff abstract guys. They'll tell you they don't need the physical world. But then when I show them my bubbles…

— Tom Noddy

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact…

— Salvador Dali

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

— Georges Bernanos

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in…

— Vera Wang

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time…

— Boaz Lavie

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the…

— Pope Francis

The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it…

— Naomi Klein

One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I…

— Gretchen Rubin

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't…

— Jenny Hval

Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions…

— Noam Chomsky

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the…

— Kenneth Clark

The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions…

— Steve Hanke

Pot is great for the abstract, for when you don't have to be regimented and for when you don't need parameters. When…

— Steve "Lips" Kudlow

They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal,…

— Bernard de Mandeville

The trouble is that when you read criticisms about the other films that I've made you get the impression that they're all…

— Michael Haneke

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not…

— Jacques Attali

I want the pictures to be working in both directions. I accept that they speak about me, and yet at the same…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

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

It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and…

— Mike Coffman

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

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

— Peter Cameron

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

— Twyla Tharp

Komodo Dragon Walk is sexier than any Cat Walk.

— Mohit Sharma

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

— Melissa Brown

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

— Chris Martin

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

— Saul Alinsky

Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it.

— London Breed

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

— William Vickrey

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

— James Gleick