Quotes About Abstract

Just as wealth is no longer measured by the ostentation of wealth but by the secret circulation of speculative capital, so war is not measured by being waged but by its speculative unfolding in an abstract, electronic and informational space, the same space in which capital moves.

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.

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

I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.

I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going to happen, and the pace. But I think if I stop to think about it in an abstract sense, I feel very daunted. I just try to enter into the story and feel my way through it. It's a very murky, intuitive way of going about it.

I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.

Evil is not an abstract concept. It lives. It has a form. It stalks. It is too real.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

I don't do abstract art because I don't find it as interesting as I do subjects and depictions.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

There's art on the show that's really bad - these cliché Abstract Expressionist gestural things. It's almost like extensions of my performance, because in the scene I'm really mad.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.