Quotes and Sayings About Abstract
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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
-- Aaron Huey -
The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
-- Anais Nin -
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
-- Anton Ehrenzweig -
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.
-- Aristotle -
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
-- Arthur Eddington -
Money is human happiness in the abstract.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
-- Atom Egoyan -
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
-- Auguste Comte -
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.
-- Benjamin Wiker -
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.
-- Carroll Quigley -
The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.
-- Cecil Balmond -
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.
-- Christian Marclay -
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
-- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji -
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
-- Clive James -
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
-- David Lynch -
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.
-- David Nicholls -
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.
-- Dmitry Medvedev -
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.
-- Dominique de Menil -
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.
-- Edith Stein -
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.
-- Edward Said -
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
-- Ellen Key -
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
-- Eric Temple Bell -
The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
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.
-- Francisco Varela -
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
-- Frank Stella -
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.
-- Fred Brooks
