Best 239 quotes in «abstract quotes» category

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

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.

I like it when I can get really abstract.

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

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

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

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'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.

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 abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.