203 Abstract Quotes for You to Enjoy

Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success. Rachel Kushner

Life Success Daily Family Grace Matter Lose Matters Nothing Creation Bearing Abstract Affect Artistic Gained Success Is Really Daily Life Thing

I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music. Rafael Vinoly

Music Time World Big Classical Classical Music Only Only Time Piano Pianos Abstract Indulgence Disconnected Literally Regular Connected Play Necessity Playing

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract. Rafael Vinoly

Clothes are only completed when somebody actually wears them. If they were art, they could be more abstract. As long as something is new and has never been seen before, I don't mind if people call it art. Wear them if you dare. Rei Kawakubo

Art You People Mind Somebody Long Seen Before Clothes Completed Dare Wear Wears Something More Only Could Never Abstract New Call Were Been Them Actually

Everybody just wants to appreciate time as it's passing, to be in the moment. It's the hardest thing to do. You're either in the unknown future that you're working toward, or you're in the past that becomes a little abstract. Richard Linklater

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it. Roy Lichtenstein

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When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats. I was painting in the bedroom, and I put them on the floor so I wouldn't get paint on the floor. They got destroyed. Roy Lichtenstein

Seriously Painting Other Destroyed Put Abstract Got Bedroom Get Them Pop Used Paint Paintings Floor Started

Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway. Roy Lichtenstein

Love Abstract Like Anyway Actually

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together. Rudolf Nureyev

Love Beautiful Time Myself Me Together Youth Quality Love Is Care Dance Older Every Every Time Musical Gifted Born Absolute Abstract Between Empire Sincere She Because Than dont Care Intense Represents Eternal Eternal Youth Us Body Her British British Empire Dame

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism. Russell Smith

Art Some Totalitarian Simplification Abstract Come Calls Always Governments Artists Suspicious Form Realism Regimes Themselves Why

'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of my photographs - an abstract image of the landscape and life of northern Ohio where I grew up and first practiced photography. Sam Abell

Life Woman Photography First Become Plaza Distinct Would Sunlight Photographs Hurrying Horizon Shadows Abstract Sharp Most Stunning Practiced Up Wall Northern Ohio Where Grew Landscape Figure Image

As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer. Samuel Barber

Music Book Own Composer About My Own Sonata Write Piano Never Written Abstract Self-Conscious Feel Concerto

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody. Shankar Mahadevan

Music Words Melody Abstract Combination

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract. Stephen Hawking

Science Universe Tells Solve Directly Abstract Equations Governed Us

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car. Stephen Merchant

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I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could be used as a tool to analyze and understand the modern world. Terence Tao

Mathematics Game World Remember College Tool Analyze Could Abstract Understand Still Australia Modern Just Modern World Realization Used Symbols University

The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children. Teresa Wright

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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. Terry Eagleton

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Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound. Terry Riley

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life. Theodor Svedberg

Life Important Changes Purely Seemingly Investigations Abstract Most Been Conditions Often Human The Most Important Which Formed Human Life Foundation

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor W. Adorno

Peace Abstract Concepts None Than Closer Eternal Eternal Peace Fulfilled Utopia

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