This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.
They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.
Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is great, that's a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract, goal-related terms, it's much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity.
To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.
I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.
I'm a fan of genre in the abstract, but at best, perhaps all we can really say when we talk about genre is that we're talking about an umbrella that covers a kind of story with certain elements.
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
We live on a planet of limited resources - an abstract notion for some of the world's population, but for many of the poorest and most vulnerable, those limits are all too real.
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
Thinking of Internet chat rooms or AIM as a kind - there's such an intimacy and honesty to tapping on your phone, despite how quick people are to damn digital means of communication as emotionless or too abstract.
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.
Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
America used to be proud of abstraction, and we have fallen away from it. The future depends on people trying to promote that abstract thinking. Not just in relation to music and jazz and the arts, but the economy, social strife, tension between people.
I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It's almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.
As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in.
Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.
I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.