Top 1200 Abstract Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects disgusted me with them. When I began to study man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that in diving into them, I wandered farther from my real object than those who knew them not, and I forgave them for not having attended to these things. I expected then, however, that I should find some companions in the study of man, since it was so specifically a duty. I was in error. There are fewer students of man than of geometry.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

All men in the abstract are just and good.

I love going to the runway shows. It's not so much for me a shopping trip as it is the appreciation of the craft of these design geniuses who come up with beautiful color combinations and beautiful proportion suggestions and these kind of ideas, so I look at the runway shows in very different ways, just kind of a romantic artistic interpretation of how they would like to see fashion going forward, but for me it's much more abstract. The runway shows are much more abstract than you know what ends up on people is much more real to me.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached to the world; it also denies that the world exists as reality apart from people. Authentic reflection considers neither abstract man nor the world without people, but people in their relations with the world. In these relations consciousness and world are simultaneous: consciousness neither precedes the world nor follows it.

I do not see scales as abstract.

All good art is abstract.

Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't appreciate that and they want to leave the theater. Others love to dream, get lost, try to figure things out. I'm one of those people. I like a film, a story that holds concrete things but also abstractions. So when ideas come along that have those things, I'm falling in love and going to work.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.

Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.

I create art. It's kinda abstract.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

I paint abstract expressions.

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

I like it when I can get really abstract.

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different.