Top 1200 Abstract Painting Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

A mathematician is an? individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

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.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painting and poetry on the one hand and modem chemistry and modem algebra on the other. In poetry and algebra we have the pure idea elaborated and expressed through the vehicle of language, in painting and chemistry the idea enveloped in matter, depending in part on manual processes and the resources of art for its due manifestation.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

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.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

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.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

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.

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty of it through abstract philosophizing.

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

The inner and outer, the visible and invisible, the abstract and concrete - you've got to get the balance right (not that I do, but it's something to aim for).

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

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.

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.

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

Sanctuary cities are a lot like hitchhiking. And the abstract, it feels really good until you feel dead.

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.

Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in the midst of painting a forest full of tall tress and hanging vines, it is rather difficult to wake up the next day and suddenly turn that paining into the beach and ocean...We have to treat each day like a black canvas on which we can paint. Yesterday might have been paining flowers, but today you can paint cars or horses. A new day represents a chance for renewal.

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

In many museums, you see one of this and one of that. You gain an understanding of what Abstract Expressionism or Minimalism is, but you aren't given the chance to appreciate the mind of an artist.