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Abstract Quotes
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. - Constantin Brancusi Quotes
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before. - Douglas Trumbull Quotes
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. - Joseph Joubert Quotes
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. - Theodor Adorno Quotes
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. - Max Beckmann Quotes
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldnt make abstract paintings. - Frank Stella Quotes
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. - Jacques Lacan Quotes
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. - John Keats Quotes
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. - Saul Alinsky Quotes
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. - Alexander Herzen Quotes
Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that youre going to try to apply to them. - David Cronenberg Quotes
Im a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; its pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldnt be stars, and people wouldnt be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you cant really control that. - Salma Hayek Quotes
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television. - Atom Egoyan Quotes
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation. - James Weldon Johnson Quotes
As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. - Lee Krasner Quotes
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms. - J M Coetzee Quotes
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. - Auguste Comte Quotes
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. - Hans Hofmann Quotes
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. - Julie Taymor Quotes
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. - Berthold Auerbach Quotes
The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children. - Teresa Wright Quotes
You think about it in an abstract way, but as a young cook, youre looking at other books for recipes, for inspiration, and for ideas. - Thomas Keller Quotes
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. - Wyndham Lewis Quotes
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp Quotes
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didnt have any beginning or any end. He didnt mean it as a compliment, but it was. - Jackson Pollock Quotes
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. - Joseph Stalin Quotes
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat. - Howard Berman Quotes
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. - Denis Diderot Quotes
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects. - Walter Pater Quotes
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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