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title: "Famous Abstract Proverbs"
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> [In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ansel-adams/in-a-strict-sense-photography-can-never-be-abstract-for-the-camera-is/)

[Ansel Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ansel-adams/)

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> [To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-shahn/to-abstract-is-to-draw-out-the-essence-of-a-matter-to-abstract-in-art/)

[Ben Shahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-shahn/)

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> [It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-motherwell/it-is-sometimes-forgotten-how-much-wit-there-is-in-certain-works-of/)

[Robert Motherwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-motherwell/)

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> [I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-reynolds/i-firmly-believe-that-a-representational-painting-is-only-as-strong/)

[Robert Reynolds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-reynolds/)

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> [Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawren-harris/abstract-art-is-a-creative-interplay-between-the-conscious-and-the/)

[Lawren Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawren-harris/)

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> [When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/when-i-examine-myself-and-my-methods-of-thought-i-come-to-the-2/)

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

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> [Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/mathematics-is-the-tool-specially-suited-for-dealing-with-abstract/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

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> [Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henri-poincare/talk-with-m-hermite-he-never-evokes-a-concrete-image-yet-you-soon/)

[Henri Poincare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henri-poincare/)

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> [Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/don-t-preach-too-much-to-your-pupils-or-abound-in-good-talk-in-the/)

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

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> [Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-thompson/learn-languages-the-right-way-language-acquisition-games-and-abstract/)

[Chuck Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-thompson/)

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> [I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-brus/i-want-to-cover-all-areas-that-can-be-depicted-visually-this-ranges/)

[Gunter Brus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-brus/)

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> [It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/igor-stravinsky/it-is-the-transcendent-or-abstract-or-self-contained-nature-of-music/)

[Igor Stravinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/igor-stravinsky/)

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> [Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-breault/among-those-born-into-chaos-some-will-imagine-an-order-and-become/)

[Robert Breault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-breault/)

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> [Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edsger-dijkstra/write-a-paper-promising-salvation-make-it-a-structured-something-or-a/)

[Edsger Dijkstra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edsger-dijkstra/)

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> [The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-l-austin/the-beginning-of-sense-not-to-say-wisdom-is-to-realize-that-doing-an/)

[J. L. Austin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-l-austin/)

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> [I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-sionil-jos/i-wish-i-could-be-honest-and-true-but-truth-as-i-see-it-is-not/)

[F. Sionil José](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-sionil-jos/)

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> [“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-johnson/his-lenin-s-humanitarianism-was-a-very-abstract-passion-it-embraced/)

[Paul Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-johnson/)

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> [I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlie-kaufman/i-know-that-as-a-very-young-child-i-was-afraid-of-death-many-children/)

[Charlie Kaufman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlie-kaufman/)

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> [Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/kings-ought-never-to-be-seen-upon-the-stage-in-the-abstract-they-are/)

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

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> [The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-lee/the-biggest-adversary-in-our-life-is-ourselves-we-are-what-we-are-in/)

[Bruce Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-lee/)

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> [For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/for-there-is-a-great-difference-in-delivery-of-the-mathematics-which/)

[Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-bacon/)

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> [Within a social structure, a familial structure, or a cultural structure of various kinds, there is a substitute for actual freedom. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katherine-dunn/within-a-social-structure-a-familial-structure-or-a-cultural/)

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

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> [In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-kirk/in-any-society-order-is-the-first-need-of-all-liberty-and-justice-may/)

[Russell Kirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-kirk/)

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> [In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lois-mcmaster-bujold/in-mysticism-knowledge-cannot-be-separated-from-a-certain-way-of-life/)

[Lois McMaster Bujold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lois-mcmaster-bujold/)

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> [It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-hofmann/it-makes-no-difference-whether-a-work-is-naturalistic-or-abstract/)

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

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> [I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/i-wish-to-approach-truth-as-closely-as-is-possible-and-therefore-i/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

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> [If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/if-the-abstract-paintings-show-my-reality-then-the-landscapes-and/)

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

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> ["Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/terrorism-is-a-metaphor-it-s-an-abstract-noun-it-s-like-having-a-war/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-de-lille/an-abstract-style-is-always-bad-your-sentences-should-be-full-of/)

Alain de Lille

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> [A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-soderbergh/a-lot-of-people-go-to-the-movies-wanting-the-movie-to-be-about/)

[Steven Soderbergh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-soderbergh/)

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> [Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-giraudoux/women-have-no-sense-of-the-abstract-a-woman-admiring-the-sky-is-a/)

[Jean Giraudoux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-giraudoux/)

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> [When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/when-you-write-you-don-t-have-the-social-constraints-of-having-people/)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nassim-nicholas-taleb/)

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> [I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/i-hate-women-hate-them-generally-not-in-particular-but-in-an-abstract/)

[Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/)

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> [And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-mccracken/and-while-i-was-not-an-admirer-of-people-in-the-specific-i-liked-them/)

[Elizabeth McCracken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-mccracken/)

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> [Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-capp/abstract-art-a-product-of-the-untalented-sold-by-the-unprincipled-to/)

[Al Capp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-capp/)

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> [You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lazaro-hernandez/you-have-something-that-exists-in-your-head-and-getting-that-abstract/)

[Lazaro Hernandez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lazaro-hernandez/)

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> [“Merry a mind is of a weeping willow roots raising concrete be in fit out all abstract.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonia-perdu/merry-a-mind-is-of-a-weeping-willow-roots-raising-concrete-be-in-fit/)

[Antonia Perdu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonia-perdu/)

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> [Cryptic messages and abstract statements are littered throughout the music of Happy Birthday, but it hasn't made the band's sun-baked pop-rock any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-fantano/cryptic-messages-and-abstract-statements-are-littered-throughout-the/)

[Anthony Fantano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-fantano/)

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> [I'm always going back and forth between wanting to do stuff that's abstract and stuff that's just telling everybody to listen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-hval/i-m-always-going-back-and-forth-between-wanting-to-do-stuff-that-s/)

[Jenny Hval](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-hval/)

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> [By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/by-phonemic-trans-formation-into-visual-terms-the-alphabet-became-a/)

[Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/)

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                        "text": "\"Terrorism\" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.",
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