Abstract Quotes · Page 6

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

— Anonymous

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

— Frank Stella

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

— Georges Clemenceau

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different.

— Thom Yorke

“The most abstract truth is the most practical.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

— Robert Breault

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

— Henry A. Kissinger

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the…

— Alexander Herzen

Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead.

— Greg Gutfeld

It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.

— J. D. Vance

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme…

— Patricia Wentworth

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

— Adolph Gottlieb

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

— Bill Gaede

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

— Howard Berman

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

— Claes Oldenburg

But no one, when you stop to think, has ever equated abstract expressionism as a movement with jazz music. It's based on…

— Romare Bearden

College students overwhelmingly support free speech in the abstract, but when it comes to the real world, they are accepting of restrictions…

— Mary Katharine Ham

We [Americans] move about the world arrogantly, calling wars when we want, overthrowing governments when we want. There is a price to…

— Harry Belafonte

Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became…

— Boots Riley

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in…

— Felix Frankfurter

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction…

— Edith Stein

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the…

— Temple Grandin

“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of…

— William Barrett

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if…

— Sydney Smith

The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two…

— John Perry

What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand…

— Terry Eagleton

A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream…

— Neal Stephenson

There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you…

— Laura Nyro

Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms…

— Gregory Bateson

It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the…

— Christopher Strachey

'Bond girl' is a bit abstract, what does that mean, you see a girl in a bikini?

— Berenice Marlohe

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

— Jenny Holzer

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

— Julie Taymor

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

— Jacques Audiard

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

— Theodor Adorno

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

— Helen Keller

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

— W. G. Sebald