Abstract Quotations | Page 3

His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.

I never had the... common anxiety as to whether abstract painting had a given 'meaning.

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred,

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

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.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Things are distinct not in their essence but in their appearance; in other words, in their relation to one to whom they appear. This is art, the truth of which is not in substance or logic, but in expression. Abstract truth may belong to science and

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

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

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.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

All men in the abstract are just and good.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.