Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.
A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.
The poem of the understanding is philosophy.
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.
All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.
The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.
Truth is a necessary phantom.
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.
I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.
I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.
Any supreme insight is a metaphor.
All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.
Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)
Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.
All good art is abstract in its structure.
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.
