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Abstract Quotes

Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. Robert A. Heinlein
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. Jackson Pollock
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities. Tom G. Palmer
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange..."
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence. Gustave Flaubert
Al Capp quote: "Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the..."
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp
Robert Smithson quote: "Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought."
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought. Robert Smithson
Al Capp quote: "Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the..."
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp
Josef Albers quote: "Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature."
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. Josef Albers
[I]f creative fiction writing is a process of translating an abstraction into the concrete, there are three possible grades of such writing: translating an old (known) abstraction (theme or thesis) through the medium of old fiction means (that is, characters, events or situations used before for that same purpose, that same translation) -- this is most of the popular trash; translating an old abstraction through new, original fiction means -- this is most of the good literature; creating a... Ayn Rand
Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction. Fulton J. Sheen
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. Jean Piaget
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. David Lynch
The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception. Leon Trotsky
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. David Foster Wallace
In a life, or a portion of a life illuminated, there's a fullness and a balance that no theory or abstraction can match. Why do people waste so much time on abstraction? The life that is given to us, that we play out, is something that you cannot any more grasp with systems and ideas than you can tame an elephant with tweezers. Mark Helprin

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