Abstract Quotes

741 Abstract quotes by 593 unique authors

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 — comics, picnic tables, men’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
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 – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic… — Donna J. Haraway
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and exposes… — 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

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