Abstract Quotes

741 Abstract quotes by 593 unique authors

From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery… — Vidya Balan
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable?… — James Fenimore Cooper
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always… — Russell Smith
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is… — Stephen Gaghan
Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as… — Nancy Gibbs
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let… — Tim Wise
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of… — Edmund White
In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings. — Lance Henriksen
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the… — John Van Hamersveld
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. — Elizabeth Warren
Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper. — James Gleick
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint. — Adolph Gottlieb
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. — Joel Sternfeld
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives… — Auberon Herbert
I do not see scales as abstract. — James Galway
The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which… — Marc Bloch
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and… — Douglas Trumbull
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions… — Theodor Svedberg
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior… — Constantin Brancusi
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in… — Jacques Lacan
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage,… — Pierre Schaeffer
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the… — David Bohm
This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics. — William Vickrey
I like the fact that music is more abstract. — Bryan Ferry
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow -… — Kenneth Clarke

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