Abstract Quotes

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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton
Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in… — Maria Montessori
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special… — Maria Montessori
Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world;… — Paulo Freire
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is… — Donald Judd
I donâ€™t abstract from anything.â€¦I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface. — Robert Ryman
I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract. — Ellsworth Kelly
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places. — Herb Ritts
Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of… — Bret Easton Ellis
Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned… — Tony Grisoni
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence… — Joan Mitchell
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work… — I. M. Pei
Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible. — Paul Rogat Loeb
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. — Julie Taymor
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at… — Henry Flynt
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. — Eric Temple Bell
All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic immigrant grudge against… — Neal Ascherson
I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective… — Giorgio Morandi
Nothing is more abstract than reality. — Giorgio Morandi

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