Quotes of: Abstract-art Keyword

What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations as a whole — rather than narrowly abstract, concerned only with the immediate interpersonal relations...

Literary Theory: An Introduction

Thus, on the one hand, Spenser's thought is steeped in sensuous detail, so that for him there is no really abstract thinking; men, he thinks, 'should be satisfied with the use of these days, seeing all things accounted by their showes, and nothing es...

Spenser's Faerie queene: An interpretation

Mowaljarlai rarely answered questions with an abstract explanation; he always told a story. His was not a fragmented world, divided into the convenient disciplinary languages and jargon that seem to be required for the understanding of concepts and p...

Storymen

In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him ...

Present Age & Of the Difference Between a Genius & an Apostle

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Jurassic Park

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

Thurston Moore

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

Lee Krasner

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

Richard Russo

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Jean Piaget

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

Theodor Adorno

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Paul Cezanne

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

William Irwin Thompson

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Sarah Caldwell

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

Berthold Auerbach

What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think...

Lifeviews: Make a Christian Impact on Culture and Society

There is a great art in selling the wind.

Spanish

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Mao Zedong

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

Sol LeWitt

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

William Drummond