Abstract Quotes

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

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

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.

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

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

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

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

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

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

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

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.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

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

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

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

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

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

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

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

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

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

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

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

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

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.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

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.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

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.

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

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

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

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.

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

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

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