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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
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 abstractbut 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
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
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
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
How many invisible, abstract incantations ruled the world beyond the Southern Reach?
— Jeff VanderMeer
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
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
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
We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
— Mort Sahl
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
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
— William Irwin Thompson
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— 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 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
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
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— Don Richard Riso
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