Abstract Quote by James Acaster Download Open image “People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.” — James Acaster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstract Abstract art Art Clever Feel People
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… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially… — Lucien Smith Copy Share Image
I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Until you get left for Mr. Bean, you don't realise how frequently he pops up. There's a shop two streets from my house that… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
Ross Noble at the Leicester De Montfort Hall on his Randomist tour - it's the only time I've hurt from laughing at a standup… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
Because such a massive part of stand-up is trying and failing first, I'm not putting as much pressure on. Just going out and doing… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
Everyone was wearing jeans, so I started wearing slacks. I'd walk on, and people would laugh before I got to the mic because I… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
I'd say I get heckled quite a lot because I look quite like an easy target. If you're an alpha-male and you think you've… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
I'd decided to write about stuff that I would like to hear standup about. — James Acaster Copy Share Image
The Rock was one of my favourite comedy characters growing up, and I still think he is. Mainly because he took himself so seriously… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
I think I can draw both a mainstream audience and an alternative audience to my shows. I also have the ability to disappoint both. — James Acaster Copy Share Image
And that, ladies and gentlemen, sums up the Fringe. Spend a year spitting your guts out writing a show, and people forget your name… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
