Abstract Quotes

741 quotes by 602 authors

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the… — Nicolas Cage
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for… — Nicolas Cage
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. — Eric Cantona
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction… — Saul Alinsky
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of… — Sam Abell
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and… — John Dewey
It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric -… — Giorgio Armani
The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of… — Geoffrey Jellicoe
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus… — Alfred North Whitehead
It's different when you talk about immigration in the abstract... It's very different when you sit in front of a family, and [undocumented] children who… — Mike Coffman
Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent… — J. William Fulbright
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with… — William James
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if… — William James
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock… — William James
You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. — Abraham Lincoln

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