Best 239 quotes in «abstract quotes» category

I like it when I can get really abstract.

I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.

I'm not religious in any way but I am very spiritual. Music is holy to me. It's like my religion. It's sacred. It feels unearthly; it makes me feel a way that talking to somebody doesn't make me feel, it's something you can't even wrap your head around. It's not abstract, you can't even grasp it - that's what music is to me.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

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

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

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 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.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

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

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

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

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

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

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.