Best 239 quotes in «abstract quotes» category

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

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

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

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

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

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

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.

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, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

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

Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead.

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.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to parts of abstract equations.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.