Abstract Quotes

Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of th...

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage ...

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible...

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, fla...

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time tha...

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick pray...

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere obser...

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no powe...

Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to...

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and ...

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: t...

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abs...

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

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 wr...

We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the ...