Abstract Quotes

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

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

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

I do not see scales as abstract.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

I paint abstract expressions.

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

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