Abstract Quotes

741 quotes by 602 authors

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression… — Richard Diebenkorn
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living… — J C Ryle
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. — Alfred North Whitehead
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of… — Van Day Truex
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound. — Joseph Joubert
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. — Julian Jaynes
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason â€“ that is, reason divorced from experience. — Benjamin Wiker
I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in… — Kerry Washington
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist… — Marlene Dumas
Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over… — Roger Ballen
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in… — Simone de Beauvoir
The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It doesn't have to… — William Kentridge
When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of… — James R Newman
The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number… — Tim Berners-Lee
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they… — Arto Lindsay
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from… — William Butler Yeats
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense… — George Stigler
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable. — Robert K. Merton

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