Abstract Quotes

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I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt… — Jorge Luis Borges
O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those… — Louis Aragon
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the… — Sergei Eisenstein
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. — James J. Gibson
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms,… — Walter Pater
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of… — Walter Pater
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of… — Pope Benedict XVI
The spirit listens only when the speaker speaks in gestures. And gestures do not mean signs or body movements, but acts of true abandon, acts… — Carlos Castaneda
For what reason then do the realists show themselves so unfriendly toward philosophy? Because they misunderstand their own calling and with all their might want… — Max Stirner
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead… — Igor Stravinsky
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was… — Igor Stravinsky
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second â€” comics, picnic tables, menâ€™s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains,… — Andy Warhol
How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop… — Andy Warhol
Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose… — Roy Lichtenstein
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. — Sandra Bernhard
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Human intellect is incurably abstract. — C.S. Lewis
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not. — Jackson Pollock
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.... — Jackson Pollock
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to… — Flannery O'Connor

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