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Abstract Quotes

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.

People World View Lawyers Abstract

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Art Start Reality You Abstract Must

I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.

War Think Abstract Idea I Think

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

Me Color Reality Abstract Expression

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts.

John Lanchester

Reality Real Out Abstract Something

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.

Art Why Always Abstract Artists

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

Dmitry Medvedev

Say Always Task Abstract Specific

A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise.

Colson Whitehead

Abstract Started Books Lot Premise

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

William Vickrey

Economics Abstract Paper

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.

Me My Own Abstract Own Idea Makes

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

Poetry Abstract Superior Film Far

The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for me to take that step.

Step Me Right Abstract Take Being

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Art World More Abstract Becomes

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

Teresa de Lauretis

Thinking Say Way Events Abstract

Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world.

Change World Climate Change Abstract

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

Best Painting Wall Become Abstract

I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.

Pamela Druckerman

Criticism Thought Always Abstract

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

Impossible Sometimes Joke Abstract

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

Joaquin Phoenix

Experience Kind Abstract Stuff Some

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.

Robert Smithson

History Time Museums Abstract Own

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

Roy Lichtenstein

Love Abstract Like Anyway Actually

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Home Position Abstract Take Easier

They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Constantin Brancusi

Work Real Realistic Abstract Things

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

William Irwin Thompson

Science Chaos Control More Abstract

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