I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
~ Harland Williams
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
~ Gerard Way
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
~ Kenneth L. Pike
Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
~ Ada Lovelace
The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.
~ Emmanuel Lubezki
I like the fact that music is more abstract.
~ Bryan Ferry
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
~ Auguste Comte
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
~ Al Capp
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
~ Salvador Dalí
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
~ Hans Hofmann
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
~ Ellen Key
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
~ Honoré De Balzac
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
~ Theodor Adorno
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
~ Saul Alinsky
It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
~ Dennis Prager
