#abstract

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arrangement #artificially #broken #could #emphasis

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#always #down-to-earth #i #simple #simple way

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#easier #hits #home #position #take

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#abstract #concrete #evil #humans #make

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

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought. ↗