Abstract Quote by Sylvia Plath

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But…

— Igor Stravinsky

I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its manifestation is…

— Mao Zedong

What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or anything else,…

— Rei Kawakubo

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human…

— Anonymous

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.

— Helen Rowland

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury…

— Sydney Smith

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story;…

— William James

It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract.…

— Ernest Fenollosa

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got…

— Emily Carr

For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to full development…

— Rudolf Rocker