Abstract Quotes

741 Abstract quotes by 593 unique authors

And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything… — Alexander Masters
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. — William Irwin Thompson
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and… — Robert Genn
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how… — Terry Eagleton
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need.… — Robert Motherwell
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which,… — Robert Indiana
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of… — Arthur Honegger
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. — Arthur Eddington
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. — Berthold Auerbach
You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually… — Leonard Jacobson
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure… — Hans Hofmann
Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape… — Herb Ritts
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and… — Sergei Lukyanenko
At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting… — William Cronon
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its… — Michel Chion
The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from… — Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures. — Henri Poincare
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if… — James A. Michener
When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to… — Richard Marcinko
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does. — Timothy Gowers
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete… — Sam Keen
Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have to prove the… — Vassily Ivanchuk
What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not… — Unknown Author
This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value of man to… — Walter Russell

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