I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
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.
Every three minutes a woman is being raped. Every eighteen seconds a woman is being beaten. There is nothing abstract about it. It is happening right now as I am speaking.
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.
The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.
Human intellect is incurably abstract.
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.
All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.
Quantum physics is no longer an abstract theory for specialists. We must now absolutely include it in our education and also in our culture.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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.
Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?