Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

I was welding art from my house, making abstract figures out of metal.

We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.

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

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

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

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

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.

Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.

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

I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract.

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

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

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

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

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

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

I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

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

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

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

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

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

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