Abstract Quotes - Page 2

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

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

I like residing in abstraction.

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

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

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

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

As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower of an experience that is separate from the experience itself.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.