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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.
I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves
I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.
Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.
When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be
The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.
I have enormous affection for Bill Simmons and not just in an abstract way but a very specific way.
How families interact is not some abstract concept of mother, son, father, daughter; it has to do with economic circumstances, the work they do, the time they can spend with each other.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.
Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.
Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.
Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.
I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.
Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.
I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.
My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.
If you're a painter, you don't go, 'Abstract's really selling, so that's what I'm going to do.' If you're really truly an artist, you have to think what you're meant to paint.
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.
The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.
Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.
The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.
Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.
That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.
If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.
Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or John Rawls.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real.
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.
