Abstract Quotes - Page 7

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.

In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse and emotive; one figurative, the other abstract; one prosaic, the other poetic; one factual, the other romantic.

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

I like it when I can get really abstract.

All men in the abstract are just and good.

His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing; it has to be a trialogue.

As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary references, because in the end, I'm concerned, not in an abstract way, but an actual way, with creating a world which has a universality to it - even though what goes on is made up of texture and detail, contemporary detail.

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

Light is snow sifted / To an abstraction.

The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning.