Quotes of: Abstract Keyword

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

Yanni

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Atom Egoyan

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses and discarded photographs of women. Gradually, her work became more abstract, and in her last exhibition, her paintin...

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Bouvard and Pecuchet

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

Lucien Smith

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience inside you.

Kim Gordon

Abstract mathematics combined with physics can discover and see more than any eye ever could.

Klaudio Marashi

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Lucian Freud

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Jerry Saltz

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Robert Smithson

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Susan Sontag

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Talib Kweli

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

John Bruton

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

E. T. Bell

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

Joel Sternfeld

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

Dmitry Medvedev

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.

Jonathan Demme