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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.... -- Jackson Pollock
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. -- Theodor Adorno
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. -- Gustave Moreau
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. -- Eric Cantona
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. -- Pablo Picasso
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. -- Saul Alinsky
Abstract truth is the eye of reason. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money is human happiness in the abstract. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks. -- Joni Mitchell
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. -- James Buchanan
Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past. -- Luhraw
I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible. -- Hedda Sterne
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. -- Edmund Burke
Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. -- Adrienne Monnier
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop. -- Aaron Huey
All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. -- Denis Diderot
Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common. -- Rudolf Flesch
Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again. -- Chris Martin
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. -- Frank Stella
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. -- Anton Ehrenzweig
The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. -- George Lakoff
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. -- Newt Gingrich
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. -- Robert Breault
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. -- Theodor Adorno
Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract. -- Richard Diebenkorn
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty. -- Robert Motherwell
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. -- Lucian Freud
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. -- Don DeLillo
Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay! -- Lewis Carroll
Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use. -- Julian Jaynes
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. -- Robert Motherwell
Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.) -- Mel Bochner
Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality. -- Steven Whitney
All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting. -- Piet Mondrian
Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art. -- Peggy Guggenheim
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. -- Eric Maisel
Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation. -- Boaz Lavie
Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate. -- Gerhard Richter
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. -- Joseph Joubert
Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout. -- Lawren Harris
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art. -- Salvador Dali
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view. -- Daniel H. Pink
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. -- Paul Engle
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. -- John Keats
I can never fathom it when people say things like "I can't understand abstract art!" Or: "Abstract art is junk!" Or: "Abstract art isn't as valid as realism!" -- Derek R. Audette
'Abstract' literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or nonobjective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts. -- Richard Diebenkorn
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities. -- Tom G. Palmer
I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing. -- Brittany Howard
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space. -- Joan Mitchell
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. -- Ernest Hemingway
And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting. -- Robert Rauschenberg
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. -- Hans Hofmann
There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts tot the same thing. Abstract art no more exists than does curved art yellow art or green art. -- Jean Dubuffet
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason. -- Robert Smithson
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground -- Noah Webster
Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography. -- Sam Abell
Cause sometimes what makes you two is shadow and you. -- Jayson lobo
Silence is the best way to confabulate with the unseen. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. -- Leo Ornstein
Thanks to my art, I now know who I am. -- Luhraw
I feel like i am parked diagonally in a parallel universe -- Anonymous
The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key. -- Luhraw
Merry a mind isof a weeping willowroots raising concretebe in fit outall abstract. -- Antonia Perdu
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. -- Deepak Chopra
An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they? -- Luhraw
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. -- Paulo Coelho
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. -- Gerard Way
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. -- Georges Simenon
For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas. -- Jasper Fforde
Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words. -- Debasish Mridha
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. -- Epicurus
Before, I could only guess oh who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am. -- Luhraw
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. -- Auguste Comte
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea. -- Christopher Nolan
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. -- N.I. Lobachevsky
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. -- Robert Smithson
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. -- Oscar Wilde
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world. -- Joel Sternfeld
Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters. -- Assegid Habtewold
This earth is His, to Him belong those vast and boundless skies;Both seas within Him rest, and yet in that small pool He lies. -- Atharvaveda
My brain is divided into two butterflies, and both are in love with your rose-shaped heart. If you've got the garden, I've got my whole life. -- Jarod Kintz
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them. -- Ben Shahn
I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. -- Temple Grandin
Certain voices heardare heardnot becausethey are phonetic...But,from one soulthey head,to another,in the form of magic.(Poem: When, When a not, Book: Ginger and Honey) -- Jasleen Kaur Gumber
But it is a pipe.""No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever. -- John Green
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. -- Andy Warhol
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day. -- Marcus Buckingham
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients. -- Paul Rand
These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck. -- Karen Quan
I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. -- Barbara Hepworth
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. -- Joseph Stalin
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. -- Jackson Pollock
Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank. -- Philip K. Dick
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation. -- Oliver Sacks
Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and conquer. -- M.F. Moonzajer
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware. -- Tim Wise
I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase "I love you," it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz -- James Lee Schmidt
I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences. -- Tommy Davidson
I paint abstract expressions. -- Billy Zane
Human intellect is incurably abstract. -- C. S. Lewis
Funerals are all abstract ceremony. -- Chuck Palahniuk
All good art is abstract. -- John Newman
Nothing is more abstract than reality. -- Giorgio Morandi
The abstract kills, the concrete saves. -- Sylvia Plath
Even abstract shapes must have a likeness -- Willem de Kooning
Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes. -- W. G. Sebald

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