Abstract Quotes

741 quotes by 593 authors

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of… — J. G. Ballard
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks. — Joni Mitchell
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. — Leo Ornstein
Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting.… — Marisha Pessl
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect. — Bob Dylan
I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It… — Brie Larson
I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract. — Joaquin Phoenix
Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing… — Christina Romer
To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or… — Mary Lynn Rajskub
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world. — Ben Silbermann
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say… — Flannery O'Connor
I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture. — Christian Marclay
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is… — John Perry
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,… — Gerhard Richter
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random.… — Gerhard Richter
The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and… — Davies Gilbert
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. — Edward Said
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and… — Hu Shih

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