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Her elegance was in the abstract; in her gait, in her posture, even in how she breathed. — Heru Ptah

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life. — Dalai Lama

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride. — Nicolas Cage

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring. — Larry Rivers

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results. — William James

A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes. — Sophia Amoruso

A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract
but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete. — Helen Rowland

The abstract has no emotional content ... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is. — Cecil Balmond

Discipleship is based not on devotion to abstract ideals, but on devotion to a person, the Lord Jesus Christ; — Oswald Chambers

Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless. — Stacey D'Erasmo

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. — Hans Hofmann

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties. — Nora Ephron

The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. — Margaret Atwood

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves — George Balanchine

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. — Ann Radcliffe

The abstract kills, the concrete saves. — Sylvia Plath

As human beings we are a lot more sophisticated about each other than we are about the abstract world. — Malcolm Gladwell

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

It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge. — Jay McInerney

Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete. — Marty Rubin

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. — Piet Mondrian

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

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

There are moments when clear images finally begin to emerge within the abstract painting of your life. — Renee Carlino

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman. — P. J. O'Rourke

My thoughts about God are vague and abstract. My connection with the energy of the universe is shaky. — Janet Fitch

We are not in a mincing lady's boudoir; we are, as it were, two abstract beings in a balloon, who have met in order to speak out the truth. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. — Thomas Pynchon

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

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now. — Paul Klee

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

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry. — Nina Ananiashvili

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter

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

How many invisible, abstract incantations ruled the world beyond the Southern Reach? — Jeff VanderMeer

The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value. — Ada Lovelace

For an ordinary trooper like him, ignorance was not simply an abstract value. It was in the manual. — Alan Dean Foster

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. — Tom Stoppard

What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm. — Robert Penn Warren

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch. — Jean Giraudoux

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth. — Milford Zornes

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves. — Virginia Woolf

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time. — H.W. Brands

We believe more readily in the abstract application of God's promises than we do in their application to us personally. — Matt Chandler

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought. — John Bargh

The abstract reveals after a second — Jinzo Sloatch

The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions. — Ugo Betti

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell

One can love one's neighbours in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it's almost impossible. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. — Mason Cooley

Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things. — Sarah Manguso

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man — Mort Sahl

Seeing it makes a magnificent abstract concept real, and reality tends to taint even the most wonderful ideas [ ... ] - Caradoc — P.C. Cast

The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. — George Lakoff

I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs. — Ned Vizzini

But the Holy Spirit is not simply an abstract force. He is a person who empowers the people of God for the Christian life. — R.C. Sproul

For my purpose, the non-fiction form of abstract knowledge doesn't interest me; the final, applied form of fiction, of story, does. — Ayn Rand

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. — William Irwin Thompson

To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong. — Isaac Asimov

I like the fact that music is more abstract. — Bryan Ferry

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level. — James Blake

The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit. — Wassily Kandinsky

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. — Rahm Emanuel

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. — Oscar Wilde

Linear's defeated form
The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer — Stella Coulson

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements. — Jan Tschichold

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon. — Daniel Tosh

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

caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

When you see the most dramatic shift is when you transition from an abstract idea to a slightly more material conversation,' Jony said. — Leander Kahney

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. — Alexander Herzen

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. — Leo Ornstein

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is in the mind, not the eye. — Agnes Martin

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. — Meyer Schapiro

Abstract truth is the eye of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life. — Henry A. Kissinger

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. — James J. Gibson

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. — Paulo Coelho

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing. — Richard Holbrooke

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. — Ansel Adams

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

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world. — Andrew Hodges

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. — Don DeLillo

For you are abstract,
making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. — Pablo Picasso

abstract himself out of the moment — Gregory Benford

[T]he Enneagram is, at its most abstract, a universal mandala of the self - a symbol of each of us. — Don Richard Riso

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality. — Henry Adams

It is very wrong to kill any one[.]"
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics! — Oscar Wilde