Best 239 quotes in «abstract quotes» category

Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?

When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been bestowed with.

When you live without someone for as long as I have, love becomes this abstract concept, something you attach to a memory. And when memories are that old, they feel like dreams, and you wonder if any of it was real, or if your mind created it all.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water. Well, I've tried to express just that. If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirits.

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

You need a body to preserve your soul, not a set of abstract principles.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

All good art is abstract.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary references, because in the end, I'm concerned, not in an abstract way, but an actual way, with creating a world which has a universality to it - even though what goes on is made up of texture and detail, contemporary detail.

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

Corruption is a fact of life in America as in Afganistan, but as American citizens, if we are white, we tend to experience it as an opportunity cost. I live in Washington, DC, where the city council is notoriously corrupt. But how do I experience that? Maybe in streets that are not as well paved as they could be, maybe in a bridge that costs a lot more money than it should have. That's a little bit abstract - shocking, of course - but still abstract.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.

Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.