Top 1200 Abstract Painting Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more than painting might do. They may both be additional pleasures, as well as conversation is, but are perfectly distinct notices; and cannot, with the least propriety, be said to mix or blend with the repast, as none of them serve to raise the flavor of the wine, the sauce, the meat, or help to quicken appetite. But music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

"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.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history of the decorative, patterns of cultural migration, Islamic art and design, Byzantine architecture, the annals of natural history, as well as contemporary painting. All of these things are filtered through my own sense of cultural urgency. How I proceed with the work has to do with how I respond to this instinctively chosen mass of materials. I'm weighing many things and making many decisions before I even get started on a painting.

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.

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now go here, now go here, go here. So all you have to do is look at it, give it a few seconds, and your eye will start to move through the painting.

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.

It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract.

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance.

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.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

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.

It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.