Quotes of: Abstract Keyword

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

Don DeLillo

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

The Canterville Ghost

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

Jeffrey Deitch

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Jerry Saltz

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.

Funes, His Memory

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

Robert Rauschenberg

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Shoshana Zuboff

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

Temple Grandin

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

Auguste Comte

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

Elizabeth Warren

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

Ezekiel Emanuel

'Bond girl' is a bit abstract, what does that mean, you see a girl in a bikini?

Berenice Marlohe

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

Dana Carvey

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

Debasish Mridha

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

John Dewey

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

James Gleick

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

Jean Piaget

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

Stephen Gaghan

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

Arto Lindsay

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

Pierre Schaeffer