She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
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.
No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
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.
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
