Top 1200 Abstract Expressionism Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.
You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win
The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.
It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.
When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.
I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.
Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.
I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.
The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
I tend to think in images and feelings rather than non-abstract concepts.
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract.
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible.
For you are abstract,
making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air.
Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.
When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
Every concrete object
has abstract value, is timeless
in the dream parallel.
The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.
You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it.
... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.
I was welding art from my house, making abstract figures out of metal.
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
