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Abstraction Quotes

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted Picture Quote #1

If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts Picture Quote #1

I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light Picture Quote #1

Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century Picture Quote #1

I’m a Libra. I’m happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction Picture Quote #1

Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself Picture Quote #1

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Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the 70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism Picture Quote #1

What I hope is I’ll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum Picture Quote #1

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art’s version of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It’s the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good Picture Quote #1

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that’s its job, in the history of art Picture Quote #1

We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction Picture Quote #1

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion Picture Quote #1

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The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated Picture Quote #1

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle Picture Quote #1

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It’s so impressive what they do with their bodies. It’s like painting: an abstraction Picture Quote #1

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency Picture Quote #1

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality Picture Quote #1

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as ‘the intelligent layperson’ does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning Picture Quote #1

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Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity Picture Quote #1

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans Picture Quote #1

Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic Picture Quote #1

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction Picture Quote #1

When you’re doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it’s a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche Picture Quote #1

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one Picture Quote #1

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The Why’s of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours Picture Quote #1

I wouldn’t say I’m a very technical [guitar] player. I’m more intuitive - it’s always more about chasing an abstraction Picture Quote #1

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Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted (Abstraction Quotes) If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts (Abstraction Quotes) I have been interested in the dialogue of abstraction and modernist painting - and the rich history of the grid. I also think I have been influenced a bit by some of the particular qualities of the Bay Area. The weather and the atmosphere here is so exotic, like the fog rolling in and the nuanced differences in the quality of light (Abstraction Quotes) Painter after painter, since the beginning of the century, has tended toward abstraction. First, the Impressionists simplified the landscape in terms of color, and then the Fauves simplified it again by adding distortion, which, for some reason, is a characteristic of our century. (Abstraction Quotes) I’m a Libra. I’m happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction. (Abstraction Quotes) Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself. (Abstraction Quotes) Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the 70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism. (Abstraction Quotes) What I hope is I’ll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum. (Abstraction Quotes) Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art’s version of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It’s the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. (Abstraction Quotes) I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that’s its job, in the history of art. (Abstraction Quotes) We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. (Abstraction Quotes) Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. (Abstraction Quotes) The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. (Abstraction Quotes) Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. (Abstraction Quotes) I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It’s so impressive what they do with their bodies. It’s like painting: an abstraction. (Abstraction Quotes) All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency. (Abstraction Quotes) Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. (Abstraction Quotes) Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as ‘the intelligent layperson’ does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning. (Abstraction Quotes) Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity. (Abstraction Quotes) Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans. (Abstraction Quotes) Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic. (Abstraction Quotes) The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. (Abstraction Quotes) When you’re doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it’s a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create those moments that are beyond narrative, that are almost an abstraction of that moment that hits your psyche. (Abstraction Quotes) Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one (Abstraction Quotes) The Why’s of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours. (Abstraction Quotes) I wouldn’t say I’m a very technical [guitar] player. I’m more intuitive - it’s always more about chasing an abstraction. (Abstraction Quotes)

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