Abstract Quotes · Page 8

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

— Joseph Joubert

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

“He can only bear tragedy if it's abstract.”

— Lauren Groff

The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.

— Ad Reinhardt

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

— James Balog

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

— Anonymous

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

— Denis Diderot

“this is the abstract, this is the cold doing, this is the almost impossible”

— Charles Olson

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

— Jean Helion

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of…

— Ada Lovelace

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best…

— Julie Taymor

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

— Anonymous

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

— Roger Scruton

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

— Henry Adams

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

— Ann Brashares

There is a part of yourself that is not subject to change, it is the silent witness behind the scenes. That is…

— Deepak Chopra

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no…

— Tim Wise

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the…

— Ernest Hemingway

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements…

— Werner Heisenberg

The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war…

— Michael Ignatieff

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions.…

— Anonymous

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this…

— J. C. Chandor

That’s what i love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff were your not sure what the poets talking about.…

— Jay Asher

You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in…

— John Legend

I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some…

— Barack Obama

Corruption is a fact of life in America as in Afganistan, but as American citizens, if we are white, we tend to…

— Sarah Chayes

The original interest in making pictures that don't directly depict came around '97 or '98, when I felt there was such an…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the…

— Flannery O'Connor

In this science the illustrations and examples are not confined in their effect merely to the practice they afford in the analytical…

— Dionysius Lardner

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of…

— Gustave Moreau

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

— Sharon Salzberg

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.

— Hedda Sterne

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

— W. G. Sebald

Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.

— Roy Lichtenstein

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

— Theodor Adorno

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Helen Keller

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

— Berenice Marlohe