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Abstract Quotes

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

King Royalty Two Abstract Divine

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Me Think Movies Jazz More Abstract

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

Christopher Nolan

Revenge Interesting Outside Abstract

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Moment Television Abstract Sense Off

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Sharon Salzberg

Life Value Voting Breathing Abstract

I want kids to live through this character I've created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they relate to it that much.

Live Character Say Want Abstract

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

Congress Terrorism Real Abstract

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

Music Language Abstract Away Film

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

People Surroundings Abstract Shape

When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.

Painting You Always Abstract Even

I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.

Abstract Nor Expressionist

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Time Heroes Abstract Take Seldom

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.

Work Difference Same Abstract Laws

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.

Ideas Drama Say More Abstract Far

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event.

Abstract Being Event Text Simply

My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.

Work Relationship Sometimes Abstract

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Christina Romer

Details Talk More Abstract Painful

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

Music People Now Asian Abstract

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Work World Sitting Abstract Just

I don't like to move abstract theoretical policies that, on a white paper, sound good. If I wanted to do that, I'd be a professor.

Good White Sound Abstract Professor

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Music Time Painting Student Abstract

Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.

Elizabeth Warren

Writing Reality Dangerous Abstract

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Berthold Auerbach

Abstract Judaism Institutions Creed

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

Artist Say Active Abstract

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