Abstract Quotes

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In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is… — Fritjof Capra
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it… — Ad Reinhardt
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student,… — LeRoy Neiman
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest… — Gustave Moreau
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine. — Dominique de Menil
Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the… — Julius Evola
While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible â€” through analysis and research… — David G. McAfee
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of… — Marcus Buckingham
A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near… — John Updike
We think about the world in all ways we experience it ; we think visually, we think in sign, we think kinesthetically, we think in… — Ken Robinson
It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle… — Agnes Martin
But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more… — Jonah Goldberg
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the… — Octavio Paz
Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to… — Wendell Berry
Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal,… — Eugene H. Peterson
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote… — Walter Bagehot
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to… — Alain de Botton
I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but… — Chuck Close
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. — Kenneth Lee Pike

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