Top 1200 Abstract Expressionism Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

I love going to the runway shows. It's not so much for me a shopping trip as it is the appreciation of the craft of these design geniuses who come up with beautiful color combinations and beautiful proportion suggestions and these kind of ideas, so I look at the runway shows in very different ways, just kind of a romantic artistic interpretation of how they would like to see fashion going forward, but for me it's much more abstract. The runway shows are much more abstract than you know what ends up on people is much more real to me.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

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

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

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

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

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.

Gorecki, you know, there's a kind of personal thing there for me. I had, you know, kind of become obsessed with that sort of Soviet Bloc period. And actually, a lot of composers in the Soviet Bloc - Gorecki's not the only one - are writing for the harpsichord as a sort of reaction against enforced Soviet realism, expressionism, sort of enforced modernism.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

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

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

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

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

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

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