Quotes by Abstract 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. Lydia Davis abstract principles math The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few. Margot Asquith abstract given My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes Mark Rothko breathe abstract art Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it. Mahatma Gandhi abstract prove truth ... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact. Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi abstract facts ideas If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse. Michael Craig-Martin possibility abstract interesting 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. Mike Leigh abstract habit world All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth. Milford Zornes art-is abstract art Freedom is an abstract offshoot. You can't describe freedom. How can you describe it? I tried and I failed. Neil Young abstract Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. Nora Ephron dinner abstract party Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. Oliver Sacks abstract emotional art I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable. Orson Welles abstract hate way 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. Noam Chomsky abstract analysis ideas Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics! Oscar Wilde ethics abstract hate All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. Paul Feyerabend abstract principles Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible. Paul Rogat Loeb abstract boundaries impossible All good art is abstract in its structure. Paul Strand abstract structure art In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject. Paul Tillich abstract moral men 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 abstract order art I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks. Peter Marino abstract architecture intellectual «123456789»
