Antiabstract Quotes & Sayings

I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations
an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions. — Claes Oldenburg

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor. — Jane Pauley

Her mask gave no sign of how this affected her. — Donna Leon

If we add state capitalism to the Bush administration's success in eroding both the US Constitution and the power of Congress, we may be witnessing the final death of accountable constitutional government. — Paul Craig Roberts

But Leon wasn't due any disability. Wasn't, their mother said, like he could claim to have caught the dumbfuck there. Not — William Gibson

During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. — Tariq Ali

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree. — Seneca The Younger

I'm sorry," he said again. "I think I'm in love. . ." He paused. "I don't think she even knows. — Dan Wells

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style. — James Gunn

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create. — Dan Webster

The hand is man's most valuable servant; its dexterity enables it to respond to his slightest bidding. — Max Heindel

But it was the last string. It was a lame string, for sure, but it was the one I had left, and every paper girl needs at least one string, right? — John Green

Joy, you are my everything. You are everything that matters to me. Tell me that you understand. Tell me that you feel this, too. — Dawn Metcalf

King Cygnus dozed in his chair, and a dark shadow curled up in the window seat. That dark shadow happened to have a name, which happened to be Darcy; but nobody really notices dark shadows, even named ones. They have a habit of lurking about. People learn to ignore them after a while. — Emma Clifton