Best 239 quotes in «abstract quotes» category

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

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

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

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.

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.