Top 1200 Abstract Expressionism Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.
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.
The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.
Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
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.
With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.
I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.
The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.
For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.
Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
A mathematician is an? individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.
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.
Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.
Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance.
Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.
I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a professor.
Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.
I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.
I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.
It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.
Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead.
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.
