#abstract

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise. ↗

— Pam Gems

#am #anyone #disguise #everyone #i

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. ↗

— Wassily Kandinsky

#art #paintings #science #art

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#art #art

Art has a voice - let it speak. ↗

— Rochelle Carr

#art #art-quotes #art

It is so wearisome having to represent things. That is why I refuse to look at abstract art. It is much too suggestive of the style of my thoughts, and I never think about my thoughts. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #representation #thoughts #art

Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can appear to have precious little to do with the actual, visual world around us. Good theory however, is an awesome thing. [...] But unless we actually use it, it borders on the metaphysical and might as well not be used at all. ↗

— Richard Howells

#art #metaphysics #theory #art

Energy and motion made visible – memories arrested in space ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#art

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#abstraction #fear #fear-of-truth #god #truth

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. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#science #life

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

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

#goodness #religion #religion