Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. – Al Capp
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. – Piet Mondrian
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. – Donald Byrd
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract – and therefore, possibly also the more practical – it becomes. – E. T. Bell
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. – David Ogilvy
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. – Frank Stella
Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. – Ezekiel Emanuel
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it’s a very specific task. – Dmitry Medvedev
The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings. – Marc Bloch
The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract. – Eugene H. Peterson
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in. – Marcel Duchamp
The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level. – James Blake