Abstract Quotes

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Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality. — Pablo Picasso
You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work… — Clement Greenberg
The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he… — Alexandre Kojeve
I try to make concrete that which is abstract. — Juan Gris
There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a… — George William Curtis
I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married… — Condoleezza Rice
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves… — Ayn Rand
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds — Marshall McLuhan
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue… — Yves Klein
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that… — Barbara Hepworth
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled… — Alexander Calder
In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense â€“ a â€˜finalâ€™ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic… — Donna J. Haraway
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediahâ€™s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality inÂ OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and… — David Limbaugh
The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the… — Chris Hedges
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief… — Tom G. Palmer
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds… — Ben Shahn
One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. — Anton Ehrenzweig
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the… — Arshile Gorky

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