Abstractionist Quotes & Sayings

On Thursday, I woke to find a perfect September morning, summer with the first gentle hint of autumn, exactly the wrong day to be away from the country. I would have gone for an enormous walk
except that, while in the bath, I saw exactly how to finish the book I was writing, after being stuck for weeks; though as things turned out, I doubt if I should have walked or written, because during breakfast I suddenly knew how to paint the view framed by my open window. I had been threatening to paint for months, sometimes seeing myself as a primitive, sometimes as an abstractionist. Today the primitive mood was in the ascendent. — Dodie Smith

The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes. He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance. — Marsilio Ficino

Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in. — Isabel Allende

There is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it. — Randall Jarrell

Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent. — Robert Kennedy

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. — Joseph Sobran

I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on. — Mark Rothko

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to. — Stephen Baxter

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you. — Pamela Hansford Johnson

I'm not an abstractionist completely. — Cy Twombly

Dear God, Holt looks good in that costume. Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo. — Leisa Rayven

What's the difference between Darling Cruel, the wind, and a vacuum? A vacuum only sucks. The wind only blows. But Darling sucks, blows, and swallows. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Well before physical dependency sets in, one of the first signs of addiction is an inability to, ironically, just say no. Now — Craig Jordan Goodman

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art ... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what! — Maxfield Parrish