Abstract Quotes

741 quotes by 593 authors

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness. — Willem de Kooning
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. — Gerhard Richter
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. — Robert Breault
The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not. — Ad Reinhardt
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. — Eric Maisel
Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as… — Angela Carter
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has… — Richard P. Feynman
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. — Vladimir Lenin
Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening… — Andrea Dworkin
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. — Jan Tschichold
The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day… — W G Sebald
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man — Mort Sahl
As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. — Lee Krasner
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three… — Lee Krasner
For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development all… — Rudolf Rocker
I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a… — Ralph Goings
God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at… — Ravi Zacharias
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word… — Henry Watson Fowler
It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's fine, and then… — Tim Burton
Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments… — Peter Cheeke

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