Abstract Quotes

741 quotes by 593 authors

I paint abstract expressions. — Billy Zane
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of… — Terry Eagleton
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by… — James G. Frazer
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.… — Jacques Attali
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. — Jenny Holzer
I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you… — Glen Hansard
I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as… — Anthony Braxton
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus… — Max Beckmann
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey
Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream. — Jacques Audiard
A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things. — Jonathan Demme
I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have… — Tommy Davidson
When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once,… — Caio Fonseca
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there. — Ann Brashares
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that. — Donald Byrd
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. — Ezekiel Emanuel
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of… — Mary Douglas
Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had… — Charles Darwin
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual… — Rene Dubos

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