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title: "Famous Abstract Words"
description: "Browse 1,403 Abstract quotes by 1,054 authors. Discover the best Abstract sayings and thoughts."
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> [Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/blue-suggests-the-sea-and-sky-and-they-after-all-are-in-actual/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

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> [What feminism calls patriarchy is simply civilization , an abstract system designed by men but augmented and now co-owned by women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/what-feminism-calls-patriarchy-is-simply-civilization-an-abstract/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

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> [In a dream I cannot see tangled abstract phallacy random turmoil builds in me i'm a addicted to chaos -Megadeth, Addicted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherrilyn-kenyon/in-a-dream-i-cannot-see-tangled-abstract-phallacy-random-turmoil/)

[Sherrilyn Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherrilyn-kenyon/)

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> [An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-genn/an-abstract-title-suggests-another-value-to-the-subject-perhaps-an/)

[Robert Genn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-genn/)

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> [But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/but-harmony-is-limitation-thus-rightness-of-limitation-is-essential/)

[Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/)

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> [The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wassily-kandinsky/the-force-that-propels-the-human-spirit-on-the-clear-way-forward-and/)

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

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> [Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-sedaris/most-people-would-have-found-it-grotesque-but-when-you-re-in-love/)

[David Sedaris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-sedaris/)

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> [Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/condemnation-by-category-is-the-lowest-form-of-hatred-for-it-is-cold/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-livingston/people-like-the-idea-of-innovation-in-the-abstract-but-when-you/)

[Jessica Livingston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-livingston/)

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> [Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-smith/calls-for-the-simplification-of-abstract-or-allusive-art-have-always/)

[Russell Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-smith/)

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> [Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/prefer-the-familiar-word-to-the-far-fetched-prefer-the-concrete-word/)

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

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> [I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brie-larson/i-didn-t-have-a-regular-school-experience-and-wanted-a-more-abstract/)

[Brie Larson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brie-larson/)

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> [I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/i-deliberately-and-consciously-give-preference-to-a-dramatic/)

[Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-jung/)

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> [Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not…All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-klein/blue-has-no-dimensions-it-is-beyond-dimensions-whereas-the-other/)

[Yves Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-klein/)

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> [Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-schweitzer/cold-completely-introspective-logic-places-a-philosopher-on-the-road/)

[Albert Schweitzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-schweitzer/)

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> [My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-born/my-advice-to-those-who-which-to-learn-the-art-of-scientific-prophesy/)

[Max Born](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-born/)

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> [I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/i-began-in-1976-with-small-abstract-paintings-that-allowed-me-to-do/)

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

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> [I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/i-think-the-most-important-work-that-is-going-on-has-to-do-with-the/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/there-is-no-mission-nor-interest-to-convert-and-yet-i-believe-that-if/)

[Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/)

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> [At the classical origins of philosophic thought, the transcending concepts remained committed to the prevailing separation between intellectual and manual labor to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/at-the-classical-origins-of-philosophic-thought-the-transcending/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

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> [The artists catch what's in the air. It's not because the artist "felt like it" or is a guru who channels the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francoise-mouly/the-artists-catch-what-s-in-the-air-it-s-not-because-the-artist-felt/)

[Francoise Mouly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francoise-mouly/)

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> [If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lincoln-kirstein/if-one-had-to-define-one-essential-gift-with-which-a-dancer-needs-to/)

[Lincoln Kirstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lincoln-kirstein/)

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> [All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/all-our-thoughts-and-concepts-are-called-up-by-sense-experiences-and/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-henriksen/if-i-would-had-been-born-years-earlier-i-would-have-been-in-all-the/)

[Lance Henriksen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-henriksen/)

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> [I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-gibson/i-embrace-the-abstract-in-photography-and-exist-on-a-few-bits-of/)

[Ralph Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-gibson/)

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> [Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-carvey/describing-comic-sensibility-is-near-impossible-it-s-sort-of-an/)

[Dana Carvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-carvey/)

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> [I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-silbermann/i-want-pinterest-to-be-human-the-internet-s-still-so-abstract-to-me/)

[Ben Silbermann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-silbermann/)

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> [... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-bryant-conant/scientific-research-is-compounded-of-empirical-procedures-general/)

[James Bryant Conant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-bryant-conant/)

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> [I admire artists who really take risks and aren't afraid to do smaller movies and obscure, abstract things. It would be really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/britne-oldford/i-admire-artists-who-really-take-risks-and-aren-t-afraid-to-do/)

[Britne Oldford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/britne-oldford/)

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> [We are not a single-issue party that puts abstract policy ahead of the working lives of people. We are not bitter, frightened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-albanese/we-are-not-a-single-issue-party-that-puts-abstract-policy-ahead-of/)

[Anthony Albanese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-albanese/)

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> [We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katherine-dunn/we-re-living-in-a-high-tech-world-so-much-of-our-stimulus-and/)

[Katherine Dunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katherine-dunn/)

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> [Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical…music is under two signs, the stars and the wine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edgard-varese/music-is-the-most-abstract-of-the-arts-and-also-the-most-physical/)

[Edgard Varese](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edgard-varese/)

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> [My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-wyeth/my-struggle-is-to-preserve-that-abstract-flash-like-something-you/)

[Andrew Wyeth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-wyeth/)

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> [Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicolas-cage/science-fiction-is-a-way-that-i-can-go-into-the-abstract-go-into-the/)

[Nicolas Cage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicolas-cage/)

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> [Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/mathematics-expresses-values-that-reflect-the-cosmos-including/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-gladwell/i-m-a-lot-more-interested-in-people-than-i-used-to-be-i-used-to-be/)

[Malcolm Gladwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-gladwell/)

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> [My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-gioia/my-blessed-california-you-are-so-wise-you-render-death-abstract/)

[Dana Gioia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dana-gioia/)

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> [I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-stella/i-was-worried-in-the-80s-that-the-best-abstract-painting-had-become/)

[Frank Stella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-stella/)

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> [It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/it-is-simply-wrong-to-begin-with-a-theme-symbol-or-other-abstract/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

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> [The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cecil-balmond/the-abstract-has-no-emotional-content-the-abstract-is-more-powerful/)

[Cecil Balmond](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cecil-balmond/)

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