203 Abstract Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter. John Burroughs

I did take some value out of looking at the extreme simplicity of implementation that the tight resource limits required. I do feel that modern games are often abstracted a lot more than is really necessary, and it leads to robustness issues. John Carmack

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Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics. John P. Kotter

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If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century. John Ralston Saul

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With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design. John Van Hamersveld

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I think, for a lot of people, men or women, it's easy to have things not affect you because, it doesn't affect you. So to be a better ally, you have to look at it as if it's someone you know instead of this abstract person you've never met. Jonathan Van Ness

It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment. Joseph Brodsky

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. Joseph Joubert

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

Myself Sometimes Lose Abstract Ideas Track Then

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. Julie Taymor

Superior Poetry Abstract Theater Far Film

Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. Justin Peck

Balance Dance Strike Able Abstract Between Narrative Just Literal

While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have their own individual character and grain. Kate Crawford

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We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied. Katherine Dunn

Entertainment World Living Our High-Tech Abstract Stimulus Quite Much Things

I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way. Kathryn Lasky

First Think Thinking Way Introduced Never Had Abstract She Been Foremost Impoverished Intellectually Any Really Notion Profound Marie Marie Antoinette

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers. Kathryn Lasky

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No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals. Kenneth Clark

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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. Kenneth L. Pike

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I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships. Kerry Washington

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Music is a physical expression that has a physical impact upon the listener. Sound travels in waves through the air. This is not abstract. This is scientific fact. And it makes physical contact with the eardrum... and with the heart... and with the rest of the body. Kurt Elling

Music Heart Rest Air Waves Physical Impact Fact Through Contact Abstract Makes Scientific Scientific Fact Sound Listener Body Expression Travels

In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings. Lance Henriksen

Respect Every Abstract Like Doing Fantasy Paintings

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. Lee Krasner

Active Say Abstract Artist Politically

I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and very improvisational, abstract stuff on the other. I don't see any reason music should exclude one or the other, and I think the pairing of them together makes for very interesting music in a lot of ways. Lee Ranaldo

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