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title: "Famous Abstract Sayings"
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> [Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kay-walkingstick/art-has-to-be-incredibly-layered-symbols-signifiers-layers-that/)

[Kay WalkingStick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kay-walkingstick/)

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> [The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joni-eareckson-tada/the-truths-of-the-bible-are-never-just-abstract-concepts-they-re/)

[Joni Eareckson Tada](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joni-eareckson-tada/)

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> [Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/money-alone-is-absolutely-good-because-it-is-not-only-a-concrete/)

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/)

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> [Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-buckingham/passion-isn-t-something-that-lives-way-up-in-the-sky-in-abstract/)

[Marcus Buckingham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-buckingham/)

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> [The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/the-idea-of-space-is-given-to-the-artist-to-change-if-he-can-the/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

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> [Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-pater/many-attempts-have-been-made-by-writers-on-art-and-poetry-to-define/)

[Walter Pater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-pater/)

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> [I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-packham/i-m-so-fond-of-abstract-design-in-the-style-of-vanderbilt-and-david/)

[Jenny Packham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-packham/)

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> [The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-hawking/the-universe-is-governed-by-science-but-science-tells-us-that-we-can/)

[Stephen Hawking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-hawking/)

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> [America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-parenti/america-is-a-simplified-ideological-abstraction-an-emotive-symbol/)

[Michael Parenti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-parenti/)

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> [There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-rauschenberg/there-was-something-about-the-self-confession-and-self-confusion-of/)

[Robert Rauschenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-rauschenberg/)

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> [I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-cernan/i-know-the-stars-are-my-home-i-learned-about-them-needed-them-for/)

[Gene Cernan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-cernan/)

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> [How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/how-badly-i-want-that-nameless-thing-first-there-must-be-an-idea-a/)

[Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/)

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> [What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/what-goes-on-in-abstract-art-is-the-proclaiming-of-aesthetic/)

[Hans Hofmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-hofmann/)

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> [Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-e-boulding/because-of-his-capacity-for-abstract-communications-and-language-and/)

[Kenneth E. Boulding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-e-boulding/)

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> [On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/freya-stark/on-the-whole-age-comes-more-gently-to-those-who-have-some-doorway/)

[Freya Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/freya-stark/)

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> [... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/landscapes-or-still-lifes-i-paint-in-between-the-abstract-works-they/)

[Gerhard Richter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerhard-richter/)

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> [The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-de-kooning/the-word-abstract-comes-from-the-light-tower-of-the-philosophers-one/)

[Willem de Kooning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-de-kooning/)

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> [Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jurgen-habermas/although-objectively-greater-demands-are-placed-on-this-authority-it/)

[Jurgen Habermas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jurgen-habermas/)

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> [If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-salzberg/if-you-re-reading-these-words-perhaps-it-s-because-something-has/)

[Sharon Salzberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-salzberg/)

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> [I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-herbert/i-now-believe-that-evolution-or-deevolution-never-ends-short-of-death/)

[Frank Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-herbert/)

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> [The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-chion/the-emotional-physical-and-aesthetic-value-of-a-sound-is-linked-not/)

Michel Chion

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> [Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/modern-transcendental-idealism-emersonianism-for-instance-also-seems/)

[William James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-james/)

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> [The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-e-boulding/the-very-act-of-thinking-about-power-in-our-lives-and-experiences/)

[Kenneth E. Boulding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-e-boulding/)

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> [Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-d-ambrosio/sometimes-i-ll-have-an-end-in-mind-but-it-s-always-false-always-corny/)

[Charles D'Ambrosio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-d-ambrosio/)

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> [When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/when-individuals-and-nations-have-once-got-in-their-heads-the/)

[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/)

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> [It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/it-is-only-those-who-never-think-at-all-or-else-who-have-accustomed/)

[William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/)

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> [Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/abstract-truth-has-no-value-unless-it-incarnates-in-human-beings-who/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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> [I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brice-marden/i-m-an-abstract-painter-not-just-for-myself-but-because-i-really/)

[Brice Marden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brice-marden/)

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> [I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-schmid/i-honestly-believe-students-of-painting-in-the-next-century-will/)

[Richard Schmid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-schmid/)

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> [Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-perkins-gilman/woman-in-the-abstract-is-young-and-we-assume-charming-as-they-get/)

[Charlotte Perkins Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-perkins-gilman/)

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> [There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-dubuffet/there-is-no-such-thing-as-abstract-art-or-else-all-art-is-abstract/)

[Jean Dubuffet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-dubuffet/)

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> [The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-blake/the-level-on-which-japan-seems-to-have-picked-up-on-my-music-seems-to/)

[James Blake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-blake/)

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> [Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-andre/lenin-thought-abstract-art-was-a-conspiracy-by-the-bourgeois-to/)

[Carl Andre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-andre/)

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> [I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lynch/i-think-that-ideas-exist-outside-of-ourselves-i-think-somewhere-we-re/)

[David Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lynch/)

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> [I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-j-ayer/i-see-philosophy-as-a-fairly-abstract-activity-as-concerned-mainly/)

[A.J. Ayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-j-ayer/)

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> [All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/all-religions-are-good-in-principle-but-unfortunately-this-abstract/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [A man may talk inspiringly to a woman about love in the abstract--but the look in his eyes is always perfectly concrete.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-rowland/a-man-may-talk-inspiringly-to-a-woman-about-love-in-the-abstract-but/)

[Helen Rowland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-rowland/)

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> [Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christina-romer/honest-talk-about-the-deficit-is-risky-voters-are-more-enthusiastic/)

[Christina Romer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christina-romer/)

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> [How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/how-much-more-the-seeker-of-abstract-truth-who-needs-periods-of/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-klee/the-more-horrible-this-world-as-today-for-instance-the-more-abstract/)

[Paul Klee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-klee/)

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