#abstract

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arises #cinema #color #difficulty #element

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. ↗

— David Bohm

#basic #commitments #deeper #derived #drops

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#fallen #heroes #individually #invoke #our

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#colour #coloured #distinct #drawing #everything

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free. ↗

— John Bruton

#consists #economy #feel #free #grow

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#believe #course #fact #freedom #hate

I like the fact that music is more abstract. ↗

— Bryan Ferry

#fact #i #like #more #music

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#difference #every #expression #follows #fundamental

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#abstract #avant-garde #expressionism #harvard #i

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗

— John Keats

#beauty #blame #critic #effect #him