Abstract Quotes - Page 6

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.

Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think.

A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract.

There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.

I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

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.

Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different.

Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin in the abstract.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.