Abstractionism Quotes

#1. The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

Herbert Read

#2. I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.

Anthony Horowitz

#3. Tim Irwin cites the maxim: If the leader didn't come to work today, everything would probably still get done; but if the people didn't come to work today, nothing would get done.

Richard Blackaby

#4. With a cloak of naturalized rationalism, scholars can deflect our attention from the power effected in their theory-making.

-- Randall Styers, Making Magic, p. 23

Randall Styers

#5. Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.

Pawan Mishra

#6. There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Chris Crutcher

#7. The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not just because they know it's successful or that they can do a good job, but in their bones, they love that genre.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#8. Abstractionism exacerbated the problem but sustainability, if intelligently conceived, could heal the rift between garden, landscape and urban design. Absolute sustainability is not possible. But relative sustainability is a practical and desirable proposition.

Tom Turner

#9. It is I who have watched over thee, life after life, in the tenderness of many mothers! See in My gaze the two black eyes, the lost beautiful eyes, thou seekest!

Paramahansa Yogananda

#10. It's awesome when people even notice that I'm an actor.

Jon Huertas

#11. Or I would walk through Queen's Park, quickly and with purpose. If too slowly, a man was bound to appear.

Margaret Atwood

#12. The kid smiled, "Not just any fire extinguisher. It's a bomb. My grandpa was in Iraq. This is an IED. He showed me how to make them.

Eric Johnson

#13. There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

John Cheever

#14. No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

Mary Doria Russell