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Abstract Quotes

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

Daniel Barenboim

Music React Talk Abstract Rather

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

Concrete Abstract Whitman Emerson

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Jean-Paul Sartre

You Say Understand Abstract Anything

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

Art People Easy Look Looks Abstract

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

Douglas Trumbull

Space Doing Evolution More Abstract

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

Silence World Friends Die Abstract

Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.

Art Never Always Abstract Expression

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Kenneth L. Pike

Nature God Truth Abstract Principle

I do not see scales as abstract.

See Abstract Scales

Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.

Ezekiel Emanuel

Suicide Question Abstract Euthanasia

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them.

David Cronenberg

You Go Mature Try Kid Abstract

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.

Children Boss Feel Abstract Contract

Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.

Jacques Audiard

Dream Abstract Film Definite

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Beauty Art Poetry Find Abstract

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Malcolm Gladwell

People Ideas More Abstract Used

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Vision India Nation Abstract Cannot

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Abstract Painter Rotten Wanted

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

Merce Cunningham

Dance Think Never Movement Abstract

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

Myself Ideas Lose Sometimes Abstract

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Nothing Study Signs Abstract Between

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Knowledge Three Stage Abstract Each

Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.

Culture See Abstract Representation

Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance.

Dance Balance Strike Abstract Just

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

Believe Will Abstract Paper Being

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