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I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.
Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.
I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.
I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work.
You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.
Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.
A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.
I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.
It's so hard to do the right thing with a pen and a piece of paper and a set of abstract thoughts.
You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.
The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
I have enormous affection for Bill Simmons and not just in an abstract way but a very specific way.
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.
Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.
One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky.
When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas.... the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
The common willing of a common world is an eminently practical undertaking and not in the least abstract.
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.
It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.
I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.
The idea of being published was such an abstract thing in the beginning. It wasn't even an option in my mind.
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.