Abstract Quotes - Page 5

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

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

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually here.

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.

Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.

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

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

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

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