Quotes of: Abstract-art Keyword

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.

Luhraw

Life’s contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

Munia Khan

[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self—a symbol of each of us.

Don Richard Riso

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

Julie Mehretu

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Denis Diderot

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

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

Stephen Hawking

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Ezra Pound

The definition of Christian art is to be found in its subject and its spirit. Everything, sacred and profane, belongs to it. God does not ask for “religious” art or “Catholic” art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth.

Art and Scholasticism With Other Essays

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm going to make art! Art arty art art.

Music

Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.One's individuality absolutely leaves one.

Oscar Wilde

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

Philipp Meyer

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

Theodor Adorno

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.

Caroline Shaw

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Jim Hodges

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Rahm Emanuel

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

Donald Byrd

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

James Blake

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

Tom Lehrer

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo