(46 quotes found)
“Abstraction is the prelude of reason”
VinÃcius De Marco Medina
“Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.”
Warren E. Burger
“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.”
Clive James
“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
“Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. [And] if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.”
William Manchester
“When viewing my abstracts, some people ask "What is it?" to which I always answer "Whatever you want it to be."”
Gene Foltuz
“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered”
Al Capp
“By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.”
Marshall McLuhan
“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
“How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.”
Emily Carr
