“A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.” WayWritingSaidStoriesWould BeAsksFictionStatementsAbstractInadequate Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself - or else it belongs to the field of illustration.” ShouldArtStoriesBeautifulFormInterestFieldsExpressionPaintAbstractColourWorks Of ArtIllustrationExpressive Author:John F. Carlson
“The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.” StoriesSchoolCollegePaperMessagesAssumingNotionCriticalAbstractReviewsExamination Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.” WayStoriesIssuesBest WayStorytellingAbstractFilmmakingEntity Author:Jose Padilha
“Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a geometry that had a narrative impact. In other words, you could tell a story with the shapes. It wouldn't be a literal story, but the shapes and the interaction of the shapes and colors would give you a narrative sense. You could have a sense of an abstract piece flowing along and being part of an action or activity. That sort of turned me on.” GivingKindStoriesActionSimplePiecesColorActivityShapesImpactNarrativeAbstractInteractionAbstractionCurvesGeometryLiteral Author:Frank Stella