“I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.” IfsThinkingSometimesMotivationFallEasyPaintingAbstractAbstractionAbstract PaintingPastiche Author:Joe Bradley
“Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous, unfathomable. Thus there is no adequate one-sentence definition of genuine community. Community is something more than the sum of its parts, its individual members. What is this "something more?" Even to begin to answer that, we enter a realm that is not so much abstract as almost mystical. It is a realm where words are never fully suitable and language itself falls short.” FallIndividualLanguageCommunityAnswersMembersRemainsDefinitionsSentencesGenuineMysteriousRealmsAbstractPhenomenonElectricityMysticalAdequateMiraculousSuitableUnfathomableOne Sentence Book:The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
“In civilized places idleness, once the prerequisite for abstract thought, poetry, religion, philosophy, and falling in love, has become a character flaw. In America we've managed to stamp it out almost completely, and few people under forty can remember a single moment of it, even in earliest childhood. The phrase 'spare time' has vanished from the land.” PeoplePhilosophyMomentsCharacterAmericaRememberFallLandChildhoodFalling In LovePhrasesAbstractFortyFlawsCivilizedSparesStampsIdlenessSingle MomPhilosophy Of ReligionPrerequisitesSpare TimeCharacter Flaws Book:Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.” WantArtEyeMovingFallAbstractInnovativeAnimatorAbstract Art Author:Michel Gondry
“Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you dont fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsHas BeensFallArchitectureAbstractTrapsAbstractionConstructive Author:Rafael Vinoly