Abstract

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We think we think in a very literal way, but if you really ponder it, you don't think in a literal way. You're seeing in a literal way, and you're going from point A to point B, but if you really consciously think back at what was going through your mind when you went from point A to point B, you'll find that it's a very abstract process.

- John Leslie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Mohandas Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

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The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

- Dalai Lama Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A painting... is just one image. It allows you to elaborate, dwell on that one picture, go off on it because no further images are forced upon you. But the motion picture is always changing. So what you have to do is create some kind of eye field, an abstract form in a literal sense that tries to emulate what the brain is perceiving, not what the eye is seeing.

- John Leslie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

a more predictable legal environment for businesses, because of its anti-regulatory orientation and its focus on economic costs and benefits rather than 'abstract' notions of right and wrong.

- Nan Aron Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It abstract art should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed - after a while you may like it or you may not.

- Jackson Pollock Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Mahler's first symphony is not a typical symphony in that it's not abstract music it does conjure up images of nature and images of heroism.

- Gregory Pritchard Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's not some abstract thing, to support the arts, ... It's a very vital part of our lives.

- Liz Thompson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

How badly I want that nameless thing First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.

- Emily Carr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

- George Ripley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I paint abstract expressions.

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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

- Julie Taymor Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Since multinational giants couldn't have little pictures of red barns or weeping clowns in the lobbies of their Bauhaus buildings, Abstract Expressionism emerged as the world's most overrated form of interior decoration.

- Brad Holland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If I painted him I would probably just paint like his eye -- completely just beet red because it had some many drugs in it or something. Or maybe just a zoom in on a forearm or something ... just where it looks like an abstract painting but it's just veins.

- Grant Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Abstract art A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

- Al Capp Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities now there is only room here for myself.

- Louis Aragon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

- Virgil Thomson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

- Constantin Brancusi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Epicurus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

This song probably has the most memorable melody we've ever recorded. I really like how we're using something so catchy to convey these abstract lyrical ideas I have about songwriting. When I sit down to write a song, I always feel like I'm wading into a river where a nurturing female presence guides me and pushes me along when I need it.

- Ed Kowalczyk Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

- Al Capp Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

- G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes