Abstract Quotes

741 quotes by 602 authors

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And… — Henry A. Kissinger
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high… — Jeffrey Kluger
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in… — Talib Kweli
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and… — David Lynch
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be… — David Lynch
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco… — Wynton Marsalis
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. — David Ogilvy
The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not… — Eugene H. Peterson
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any… — Jackson Pollock
It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. — Dennis Prager
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to… — Paul Rand
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were… — Robert Rauschenberg
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture. — Jerry Saltz
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was… — Jerry Saltz
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it. — Sharon Salzberg
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. — Jean-Paul Sartre
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion.… — Marjane Satrapi
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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