Abstract Quotes
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You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye. (Quote by - Clement Greenberg)
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
I`m sure you`ve heard that description, `Jimmy Stewart from Mars.` Yes. Because a part of him is really so sweet and pure and innocent. He`d tell me my take was `Jim-dandy`, or `Doggone it, Sherilyn, that was cool. (Quote by - Sherilyn Fenn)
In our search after the Knowledge of Substances, our want of Ideas, that are suitable to such a way of proceeding, obliges us to a quite different method. We advance not here, as in the other (where our abstract Ideas are real as well as nominal Essences) by contemplating our Ideas, and considering their Relations and Correspondencies; that helps us very little, for the Reasons, and in another place we have at large set down. By which, I think it is evident, that Substances afford Matter of very little general Knowledge; and the bare Contemplation of their abstract Ideas, will carry us but a very little way in the search of Truth and Certainty. What then are we to do for the improvement of our Knowledge in Substantial beings? Here we are to take a quite contrary Course, the want of Ideas of their real essences sends us from our own Thoughts, to the Things themselves, as they exist. (Quote by - John Locke)
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. (Quote by - David Hume)
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. (Quote by - Al Capp)
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. (Quote by - Paul Engle)
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour paraître profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross. (Quote by - Katherine Philips)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
When we talk about violence, we`re talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don`t lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you`re photographing is people, bodies. (Quote by - David Cronenberg)
Such propositions are therefore called Eternal Truths, not because they are Eternal Truths, not because they are External Propositions actually formed, and antecedent to the Understanding, that at any time makes them; nor because they are imprinted on the Mind from any patterns, that are any where out of the mind, and existed before: But because, being once made, about abstract Ideas, so as to be true, they will, whenever they can be supposed to be made again at any time, past or to come, by a Mind having those Ideas, always actually be true. For names being supposed to stand perpetually for the same ideas, and the same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another, Propositions concerning any abstract Ideas that are once true, must needs be eternal Verities. (Quote by - John Locke)
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. (Quote by - Robert Motherwell)
The product, via substantial abstraction, allows for less skilled developers to rapidly generate relatively sophisticated Web applications. The catch is that more experienced developers may find some of the abstraction unnecessary and/or undesirable. (Quote by - Stephen O'Grady)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. (Quote by - Kandinsky,Wassily)
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back. (Quote by - Danny Elfman)
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we`re all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. And I think the mind isn`t conscious enough to go all the way to where we`re connected. (Quote by - David Lynch)
I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it. (Quote by - Stephen Wright)
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. (Quote by - Al Capp)
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery—Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. (Quote by - Jean Piaget)
I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I`m not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me. (Quote by - Jim Jarmusch)
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. (Quote by - Aristotle)
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called figurative artists insist that what they really care about, is the abstract qualities of life. (Quote by - Marlene Dumas)
I`ve been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it. (Quote by - Stephen Wright)
When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or existence? No.Commit itthen tothe flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. (Quote by - Hume, David)
I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves. Maybe it`s a middle-class British hang-up, but I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful. (Quote by - Daniel Day-Lewis)
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. (Quote by - Frank Stella)
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. (Quote by - William James)
Literature is not an abstract science, to which exact definitions can be applied.It is an Art rather, the success of which depends on personal persuasiveness, on the author's skill to give as on ours to receive. (Quote by - Quiller)
Funerals are all abstract ceremony. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration. (Quote by - William James)
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. (Quote by - Jackson Pollock)
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short. (Quote by - Clive James)
You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think the anticipation of death without language would be impossible. (Quote by - David Cronenberg)
Every form is individual, there exists none which is abstract. (Quote by - Heinse,Wilhelm)
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape. (Quote by - Jenny Saville)
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these. (Quote by - William James)
It has been often said, even by proponents of those picturesknown inaestheticslang as Cubist and Abstract, that they have no subject matter. Such a statement is equivalent to saying that life has no subject matter. (Quote by - Davis, Stuart)
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. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men. (Quote by - Epicurus)
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. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art. (Quote by - Agnes Martin)
For me, as for most novelists, every genuine imaginative event begins down there, with the facts, with the specific, and not with the philosophical, theideological, or the abstract. (Quote by - Roth, Philip Milton)
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. (Quote by - Auguste Comte)
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great. (Quote by - Edward Hopper)
The test of an abstract picture, for me, is not my first reaction to it, but how long I can stand it hanging on the wall of a room where I am living. (Quote by - Betjeman, SirJohn)
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. (Quote by - Paul Klee)
A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals. (Quote by - Gordon Wallport)
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Inspired by natural forces, feminine mystique and the spontaneity of form within the essence of beauty, Garrity creates work that traverses between stark realism and the colorful void of abstraction. 2006 Irish America Magazine. (Quote by - DJ Garrity)
I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do. (Quote by - George Lucas)
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that`s how I view the world. (Quote by - Sandra Bernhard)
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract. (Quote by - Nicola Chiaromonte)
I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. (Quote by - Mark Rothko)
