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> [I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-marclay/i-admire-the-abstract-expressionists-and-pop-artists-so-right-now-i-m/)

[Christian Marclay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-marclay/)

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> [Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/politics-is-a-literal-game-every-word-must-represent-a-strict-view-or/)

[Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/)

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> [I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pete-docter/i-don-t-think-it-s-physically-possible-for-little-kids-to-know-what/)

[Pete Docter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pete-docter/)

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> [Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/art-bids-us-touch-and-taste-and-hear-and-see-the-world-and-shrinks/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wassily-kandinsky/abstract-art-places-a-new-world-which-on-the-surface-has-nothing-to/)

[Wassily Kandinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wassily-kandinsky/)

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> [“When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saim-a-cheeda/when-you-ve-been-given-a-curse-of-perspective-you-don-t-stop-to/)

[Saim .A. Cheeda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saim-a-cheeda/)

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> [Some people who look at abstract art say 'I could do that.' A good response is, 'Go ahead but then you'll be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-willard/some-people-who-look-at-abstract-art-say-i-could-do-that-a-good/)

[Christopher Willard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-willard/)

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> [Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/delight-at-having-understood-a-very-abstract-and-obscure-system-leads/)

[Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/)

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> [I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-shawn-alexander/i-paint-like-an-abstract-painter-everything-is-inside-nothing-is/)

[Jason Shawn Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-shawn-alexander/)

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> [I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-goings/i-thought-enough-of-this-i-m-not-an-abstract-painter-what-the-hell-am/)

Ralph Goings

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> [Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-l-goldberg/representational-painters-loosen-the-grip-of-inflexibility-abstract/)

[Joshua L. Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-l-goldberg/)

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> [A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-fraternity-is-the-antithesis-of-fraternity-the-first-is-predicated/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

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> [Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-ballen/black-and-white-is-essentially-an-abstract-way-to-interpret-and/)

[Roger Ballen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-ballen/)

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> [From the very beginning, I said there are two tracks of reform: there's the political and the technical. I don't believe the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-snowden/from-the-very-beginning-i-said-there-are-two-tracks-of-reform-there-s/)

[Edward Snowden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-snowden/)

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> [I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-c-wright/i-always-choose-strong-direct-backlighting-that-creates-patterns-of/)

William C. Wright

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> [But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-lacan/but-this-emphasis-would-be-lavished-in-vain-if-it-served-in-your/)

[Jacques Lacan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-lacan/)

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> [To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/to-say-to-know-how-to-say-to-know-how-to-exist-via-the-written-voice/)

[Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/)

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> [I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guity-novin/i-am-biased-towards-the-belief-that-every-painter-must-be-grounded-in/)

[Guity Novin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guity-novin/)

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> [We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/we-must-cultivate-and-defend-particularity-individuality-and/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

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> [In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fritjof-capra/in-ordinary-life-we-are-not-aware-of-the-unity-of-all-things-but/)

[Fritjof Capra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fritjof-capra/)

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> [We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-thurston/we-humans-have-a-wide-range-of-abilities-that-help-us-perceive-and/)

[William Thurston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-thurston/)

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> [Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harmony-korine/directing-to-me-starts-even-before-we-get-to-the-set-directing-is-a/)

[Harmony Korine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harmony-korine/)

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> [The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/the-universe-was-a-silly-place-at-best-but-the-least-likely/)

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/)

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> [Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-graves/abstract-reason-formerly-the-servant-of-practical-human-reasons-has/)

[Robert Graves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-graves/)

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> [Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joan-mitchell/abstract-is-not-a-style-i-simply-want-to-make-a-surface-work-this-is/)

[Joan Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joan-mitchell/)

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> [Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-weldon-johnson/northern-white-people-love-the-negro-in-a-sort-of-abstract-way-as-a/)

[James Weldon Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-weldon-johnson/)

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> [Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cassius-jackson-keyser/mathematics-even-in-its-present-and-most-abstract-state-is-not/)

[Cassius Jackson Keyser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cassius-jackson-keyser/)

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> [There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yanni/there-is-no-gender-to-my-music-there-s-no-male-or-female-voice-no/)

[Yanni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yanni/)

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> [Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harry-belafonte/bin-laden-didn-t-come-from-the-abstract-he-came-from-somewhere-and-if/)

[Harry Belafonte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harry-belafonte/)

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> [Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-bloom/commitment-is-a-word-invented-in-our-abstract-modernity-to-signify/)

[Allan Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-bloom/)

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> [Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mel-bochner/photography-cannot-record-abstract-ideas-title-of-a-16x20-inch/)

Mel Bochner

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> [Know what your sin is and confess it; but do not imagine that you have approved yourself a penitent by confessing sin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-l-cuyler/know-what-your-sin-is-and-confess-it-but-do-not-imagine-that-you-have/)

[Theodore L. Cuyler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-l-cuyler/)

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> [If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/if-the-abstract-rights-of-man-will-bear-discussion-and-explanation/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/)

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> [With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-c-lichtenberg/with-god-thoughts-are-colors-with-us-they-are-pigments-even-the-most/)

[Georg C. Lichtenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-c-lichtenberg/)

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> [There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/there-is-no-abstract-art-you-must-always-start-with-something-2/)

[Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/)

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> [I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonah-hill/i-mean-i-find-things-that-happened-in-real-life-to-be-the-funniest/)

[Jonah Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonah-hill/)

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> [Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-sternfeld/black-and-white-is-abstract-color-is-not-looking-at-a-black-and-white/)

[Joel Sternfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-sternfeld/)

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> [Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-engle/verse-is-not-written-it-is-bled-out-of-the-poet-s-abstract-head-words/)

[Paul Engle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-engle/)

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> [Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-feynman/everybody-who-reasons-carefully-about-anything-is-making-a/)

[Richard P. Feynman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-feynman/)

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> [My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-byrd/my-work-sometimes-can-be-abstract-and-appear-not-to-have-a-direct/)

[Donald Byrd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-byrd/)

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                        "text": "Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.",
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                        "text": "To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters in life; the rest is men and women, imagined loves and factitious vanities, the wiles of our digestion and forgetfulness, people squirming — like worms when a rock is lifted — under the huge abstract boulder of the meaningless blue sky.",
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                        "text": "We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but also by hearing, by feeling, by our sense of body motion and position. Our geometric and spatial skills are highly trainable, just as in other high-performance activities. In mathematics we can use the modules of our minds in flexible ways - even metaphorically. A whole-mind approach to mathematical thinking is vastly more effective than the common approach that manipulates only symbols.",
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                        "text": "The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.",
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                        "text": "Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.",
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                        "text": "Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.",
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                        "text": "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.",
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                        "text": "There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.",
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                        "text": "Bin Laden didn't come from the abstract. He came from somewhere, and if you look where ... you'll see America's hand of villainy.",
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                        "text": "Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)",
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