Abstract Quote by W. G. Sebald

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

— Robert Smithson

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

— Terry Pratchett

“Time is an abstract concept created by carbon based life forms to monitor their on going decay”

— Thundercleese

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

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

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

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

— Tim Wise

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

— Dana Carvey

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

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

— Joni Mitchell

“Happy is very abstract, you can't touch it.”

— Julius Veal

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