Abstract Quotes - Page 4

I paint abstract expressions.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

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

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Touring was an abstract idea for me in the beginning. I didn't know where it was going to take me, but I knew that I wanted to go and play for lots of people. I always had that image in my mind. I had no idea what the touring experience was like, and how it was going to unfold, but I knew that I wanted to tour. Then it just started happening slowly started happening.

Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.

I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.

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

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

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

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.