Abstract Quotes

741 quotes by 602 authors

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body… — Jane Smiley
All good art is abstract in its structure. — Paul Strand
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. — Edmund Burke
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital… — Karl Marx
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history… — Louis Althusser
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must… — Hubert H. Humphrey
My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes — Mark Rothko
I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different. — Thom Yorke
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only… — Frank Stella
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the… — Frank Stella
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here… — Paul Klee
You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist. — Robert Rauschenberg
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity… — Wassily Kandinsky
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian
Even abstract shapes must have a likeness — Willem de Kooning
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can… — Willem de Kooning
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor… — Fernando Pessoa
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will… — James Weldon Johnson
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal… — David Foster Wallace

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