Concept Quote by Robert Gottlieb

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually…

— Flannery O'Connor

Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is…

— Erving Polster

Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.

— Neil Gaiman

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a…

— C. S. Lewis

“When an idea is idiotic to begin with, its applications never make any sense.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

— James Frey

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

— Christina Ricci

I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture is because…

— Barbara Kruger

Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.

— Sara Genn

I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't…

— Derek R. Audette

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

— Lucian Freud

I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning…

— Dana Schutz