Top 1200 Abstract Painting Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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.

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.

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

Where I'm at in my relationship with my wife or my family and life in general, I feel like it all comes out in the music. Hopefully, it's always there, but in an ambiguous and abstract way and not real straightforward.

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

My painting technique has not changed that much over time, although perhaps I am painting tighter and with more detail, in spite of a desire to loosen up and paint more expressively. One thing that has changed is my daily routine. I used to paint quite late into the night. It was a time I felt the creative spirits most active. As I have aged, my circadian rhythm has changed. I like to paint early in the day when I can avoid falling into the soul-sucking email world. Early dawn feels very similar to late night.

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

I hate painting.

Beauty is a type of art everyone is trying to perfect, but no one realizes it's abstract art.

The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

I love painting.

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract reasoning skill.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

A great painting is a great painting.

Sunlight is painting.

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.

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.

Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs.

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

I have enormous affection for Bill Simmons and not just in an abstract way but a very specific way.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

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.

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

What has reasoning to do with painting?

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.