Best 239 quotes in «abstract quotes» category

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, "Didn't you want to get married?" Well, sure, but it's not abstract, there has to be someone you want to marry. I'm pretty traditional. Marriage would have to come first, before kids.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse and emotive; one figurative, the other abstract; one prosaic, the other poetic; one factual, the other romantic.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different.

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

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

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.

Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.