Abstract Quotes

741 Abstract quotes by 593 unique authors

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
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple,… — Grace Slick
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. — Susan Sontag
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between… — Joseph Stalin
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if… — Christopher Walken
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York… — Vera Wang
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. — Gerard Way
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same… — Mary Wollstonecraft
To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in… — George Edward Woodberry
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art.… — Steven Wright
The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in… — Steven Wright
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of… — Douglas Rushkoff
When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she… — H.G. Wells
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning… — David Hume
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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