Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream.
Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.
People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.
For so many Americans, what goes on here in Washington often seems abstract and remote, unrelated to their daily concerns,
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.