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Letter "A" » abstract
«Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered»
Author: Al Capp
(Cartoonist)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
abstract, abstract art, Art a, bewildered, sold, unprincipled
«Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.»
Author: Jackson Pollock
(Painter)
| Keywords:
abstract, abstract painting, back end, compliment, confronts, pictures, picture writing, reviewer, reviewers, wrote
«It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed ? after a while you may like it or you may not.»
«Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground»
Author: Noah Webster
(Man of letter)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, affections, arising, bases, broad, broadest, broads, close to, construction, constructions, dictionary, generations, ground, joys, low, Makers, tastes, The Makers, ties
«Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.»
Author: Saul Alinsky
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Change
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abrasive, abstract, abstracted, abstracting, conflict, friction, frictionless, movement, nonexistent, occur, vacuum
«Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abstract, confesses, exertion, general rule, practically
«If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
abstract, discussion, explanation, parity, prevails, Rights of Man, shrink, shrink from
«How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.»
«Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest, and best of men is but an aphorism»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge,
Science
| Keywords:
abstract, aphorism, aphorisms, exclusively, largest, portion, sciences, worthiest
«I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, abstract painting, a lot, brush, brushed, brushes, brushing, brush up, canvas, extremely, lately, lot, paint, painting, think about
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