I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction,… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human,… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
When we were kids, you picked up a little paper and put it on a stick; and when you waved it back… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction. — Sidney Coleman Copy Share Image
My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
