Best 239 quotes in «abstract quotes» category

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

For me, there's the certain focus points that come out, which could reference a song or a pop disco, or something really abstract. It's not totally fulfilling or complete, but rather an ongoing incompleteness. I'm really interested in the audience's relationship with myself, and my relationship with them.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former; and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It relates to something. Non-objective relates to nothing. It has no object.

I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

I don't know if embarrassed is the right word, about pop, but I prefer the abstract and the distorted in music. And I keep writing these proper melodies and harmonies, and they're the bits that get thrown out of the records! And I have quite a collection.

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.

I like it when I can get really abstract.

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

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

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

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.

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

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

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 try to make concrete that which is abstract.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.