Abstract Quotes · Page 7

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

— George Lucas

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

— Pablo Picasso

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

— Gustave Moreau

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

— George Eliot

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

— Berthold Auerbach

fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

— Elizabeth Bowen

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

— Bryan Ferry

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold…

— Dominique de Menil

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

— Morris Kline

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience…

— Jim Henson

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

— David Hockney

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

— William Hazlitt

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

— Oscar Wilde

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this…

— Ben Nicholson

Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages…

— Robert Indiana

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such…

— John Dewey

When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say,…

— Philip Guston

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to…

— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the…

— Ada Lovelace

Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.…

— Agnes Martin

The easiest way for me to tell someone what I do is to say that I'm a non-musician who practises and produces…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death…

— Marcel Proust

An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general…

— John Updike

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the…

— Madame de Stael

In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But…

— Jason Pierce

Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic…

— Juan Gris

Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous…

— George Dantzig

We do have to learn poetry at school. Poetry is interesting to me, particularly Chinese poetry. It's like an ancient form of…

— Jenova Chen

The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so…

— Tom of Finland

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

— James Buchanan

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

— Milford Zornes

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

— Jerry Saltz

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

— Anonymous

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

— Thom Yorke

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

— Georges Clemenceau

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