Abstract Quotes
741 quotes by 602 authors
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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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
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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
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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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
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'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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.
— Abraham Lincoln
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