Abstract Quotes

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There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love… — Leo Buscaglia
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. — Ann Radcliffe
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many… — Alan Turing
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought.… — J M Coetzee
The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes. — Marc Chagall
What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and… — Marc Chagall
The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal. — Wassily Kandinsky
Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty… — John Dewey
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend… — David Hume
To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be… — Pope Francis
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It… — Niels Bohr
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. — Paul Dirac
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need. — Ai Weiwei
'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The result… — Richard Diebenkorn
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. — Constantin Brancusi
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because… — Georgia O'Keeffe
All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized. — David Hockney

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