#abstract

I do not see scales as abstract. ↗

— James Galway

#i #i do #scales #see

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#abstract art #another #art #even #everybody

Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#common #directly #inorganic #life #may

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist. ↗

— David Lynch

#between #connected #exist #here #i

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. ↗

— David Lynch

#both #concrete #hold #me #really

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#administrator #big #bureaucratic #feel #him

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#far #film #poetry #superior #theater

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#abstract #best #does #i #king

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#academically #big #broom #changed #could

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#concept #especially #exists #idea #interesting