"Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing.……" — Robert Genn

Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled… - Robert Genn

"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 mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience."

— Robert Genn

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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some… — Nicolas Cage
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still… — Nicolas Cage
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. — Eric Cantona
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change… — Saul Alinsky
'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would… — Sam Abell
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply… — John Dewey
It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without… — Giorgio Armani

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