The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.
I'm not trying to do conceptual art.
The art of war is the art of deception.
I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.
I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings.
Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me is bad.
After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in physics than on his violin. Art is this: art is the solution of a p...
I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able apprec...
To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong.
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is a difficult process.
I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.
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.
Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.
In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.
