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title: "Famous Abstract Qoutes"
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> [One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-motherwell/one-of-the-most-striking-of-abstract-art-s-appearances-is-her/)

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

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> [I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-bradley/i-guess-i-have-no-motivation-to-make-an-abstract-painting-even-if/)

[Joe Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-bradley/)

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> [While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/while-those-whom-devotion-to-abstract-discussions-has-rendered/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/there-is-nothing-abstract-about-pain-it-is-specific-it-is-real-and/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/far-from-being-antecedent-principles-that-animate-the-process-law/)

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

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> [The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josephine-herbst/the-law-is-not-abstract-impartially-arbitrating-between-conflicting/)

Josephine Herbst

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> [Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-martin-skibsted/being-design-led-means-designers-take-ideas-from-the-abstract-to-the/)

[Jens Martin Skibsted](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jens-martin-skibsted/)

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> [The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-k-merton/the-purely-abstract-theorist-runs-the-risk-that-as-with-modern-decor/)

[Robert K. Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-k-merton/)

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> [On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-sapolsky/on-an-incredibly-simplistic-level-you-can-think-of-depression-as/)

[Robert M. Sapolsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-sapolsky/)

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> [It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-padilha/it-s-all-about-this-abstract-entity-called-the-story-it-s-all-about/)

[Jose Padilha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-padilha/)

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> [I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-farber/i-loved-surrealism-and-abstract-painting-and-anything-related-to/)

[Neil Farber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-farber/)

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> [There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/there-s-a-tiredness-of-abstract-inteligence-and-it-s-the-most/)

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

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> [I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/drummond-money-coutts/i-think-that-magic-at-its-root-is-a-very-abstract-notion-there-s-no/)

[Drummond Money-Coutts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/drummond-money-coutts/)

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> [Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-friedrich-gauss/sophie-germain-proved-to-the-world-that-even-a-woman-can-accomplish/)

[Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-friedrich-gauss/)

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> [The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-jellicoe/the-underlying-attraction-of-the-movement-of-water-and-sand-is/)

Geoffrey Jellicoe

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> [I don't have to think too hard to keep my writing within a certain narrative thread. That happens because certain words trigger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luke-temple/i-don-t-have-to-think-too-hard-to-keep-my-writing-within-a-certain/)

[Luke Temple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luke-temple/)

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> [Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-genn/abstract-understanding-doesn-t-mean-arbitrary-sloshing-and-messing/)

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

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> [ \[T\]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sydney-smith/t-he-47th-proposition-in-euclid-might-now-be-voted-down-with-as-much/)

[Sydney Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sydney-smith/)

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> [“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-barrett/we-have-come-to-understand-the-phenomena-of-life-only-as-an/)

[William Barrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-barrett/)

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> [A lot of abstract painters seem to be doing everything all at once now. And so these different styles are jibing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-ruscha/a-lot-of-abstract-painters-seem-to-be-doing-everything-all-at-once/)

[Edward Ruscha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-ruscha/)

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> [There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-nyro/there-are-no-limitations-with-a-song-to-me-a-song-is-a-little-piece/)

[Laura Nyro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-nyro/)

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> [Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/science-sometimes-improves-hypotheses-and-sometimes-disproves-them/)

[Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/)

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> [It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-strachey/it-has-long-been-my-personal-view-that-the-separation-of-practical/)

Christopher Strachey

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> [A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-stephenson/a-species-has-to-become-pretty-intellectually-advanced-in-order-to/)

[Neal Stephenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-stephenson/)

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> [To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/to-give-the-theory-plenty-of-rope-and-see-if-it-hangs-itself/)

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

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> [You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/talib-kweli/you-make-knowledge-relevant-to-life-and-you-make-it-important-for/)

[Talib Kweli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/talib-kweli/)

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> [You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-rauschenberg/you-have-to-have-the-time-to-feel-sorry-for-yourself-in-order-to-be-a/)

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

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> [Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herb-ritts/within-two-hours-of-where-i-live-you-have-mountains-and-desert-as/)

[Herb Ritts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herb-ritts/)

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> [NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gulzar/nasa-is-my-favorite-website-the-universe-with-its-abstract-nature/)

[Gulzar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gulzar/)

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> [Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/freedom-is-not-merely-a-word-or-an-abstract-theory-but-the-most/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-ransone/just-because-i-try-to-read-a-lot-of-stuff-doesn-t-mean-i-can-fully/)

[James Ransone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-ransone/)

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> [Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/auguste-comte/each-department-of-knowledge-passes-through-three-stages-the/)

[Auguste Comte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/auguste-comte/)

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> [You can't buy your privacy back. Because I was already doing OK, and to have this abstract amount of money now, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-choe/you-can-t-buy-your-privacy-back-because-i-was-already-doing-ok-and-to/)

[David Choe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-choe/)

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> [We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/we-favor-the-visible-the-embedded-the-personal-the-narrated-and-the/)

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

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> [For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-motherwell/for-a-painter-as-abstract-as-myself-the-collages-offer-a-way-of/)

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

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> [ I don't like \[to\] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like \[to\] say, "You must wear… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yves-saint-laurent/i-don-t-like-to-make-a-woman-an-abstract-concept-of-the-fashion-i-don/)

[Yves Saint Laurent](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yves-saint-laurent/)

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> [All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/all-investigations-of-time-however-sophisticated-or-abstract-have-at/)

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

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> [Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keats/praise-or-blame-has-but-a-momentary-effect-on-the-man-whose-love-of/)

[John Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-keats/)

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> [Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/everybody-knows-that-abstract-art-can-be-art-and-most-people-know/)

[Roy Lichtenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-lichtenstein/)

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> [Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-genn/great-paintings-have-gradations-large-and-small-they-serve-to-lift/)

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

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