Top 1200 Abstract Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
Explore popular Abstract quotes.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.
For you are abstract,
making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.
My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.
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.
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.
People tend to have a knee-jerk response to the word 'philosophy'. You imagine it's abstract and inaccessible.
The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.
The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.
The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.
Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.
I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.
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.
The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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.
Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.
A mathematician is an? individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
People like abstract art because it makes them feel clever.
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.
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.
Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance.
"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.
