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> [I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-motherwell/i-have-been-continuously-aware-that-in-painting-i-am-always-dealing/)

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

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> [When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/when-i-conform-to-truth-i-do-not-conform-to-an-abstract-principle-i/)

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

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> [Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-l-goldberg/abstract-painters-redefine-your-perspectives-think-in-terms-of-the/)

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

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> [I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-close/i-can-t-always-reach-the-image-in-my-mind-almost-never-in-fact-so/)

[Chuck Close](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-close/)

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> [Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-rivers/maybe-i-was-a-little-jealous-or-envious-of-the-abstract-painters-but/)

[Larry Rivers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-rivers/)

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> [There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/there-were-many-words-that-you-could-not-stand-to-hear-and-finally/)

[Ernest Hemingway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-hemingway/)

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> [The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ad-reinhardt/the-only-and-one-way-to-say-what-abstract-art-or-art-as-art-is-is-to/)

[Ad Reinhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ad-reinhardt/)

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> [The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/the-real-test-of-compassion-is-not-what-we-say-in-abstract/)

[Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/)

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> [Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johan-huizinga/science-unguided-by-a-higher-abstract-principle-freely-hands-over-its/)

[Johan Huizinga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johan-huizinga/)

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> [Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-carmack/programming-in-the-abstract-sense-is-what-i-really-enjoy-i-enjoy-lots/)

[John Carmack](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-carmack/)

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> [Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/those-who-incline-to-very-strictly-utilitarian-views-may-perhaps-feel/)

[Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ada-lovelace/)

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> [Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/abstract-expressionism-the-first-american-movement-to-have-a/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

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> [Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-smith/nothing-in-our-politics-is-any-longer-driven-or-designed-by/)

[Kenny Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-smith/)

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> [I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/i-would-put-myself-in-the-attitude-to-look-in-the-eye-an-abstract/)

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

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> [In a first pregnancy, you don't have a child yet, so you can nap and see movies and exercise. The notion of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelli-williams/in-a-first-pregnancy-you-don-t-have-a-child-yet-so-you-can-nap-and/)

[Kelli Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelli-williams/)

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> [The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rei-kawakubo/the-first-thing-we-do-is-sit-around-a-table-and-discuss-what-we-could/)

[Rei Kawakubo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rei-kawakubo/)

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> [The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-perry/the-anceints-devoted-a-lifetime-to-the-study-of-arithmetic-it/)

[John Perry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-perry/)

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> [What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-eagleton/what-persuades-men-and-women-to-mistake-each-other-from-time-to-time/)

[Terry Eagleton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-eagleton/)

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> [I went to the Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont. And it was a place where you, like, learned to go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/i-went-to-the-mary-lee-burbank-school-in-belmont-and-it-was-a-place/)

[Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-laffoley/)

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> [Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/of-course-genes-can-t-pull-the-levers-of-our-behavior-directly-but-2/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-strozzi-heckler/the-greatest-cost-of-the-specialization-of-technological-life-and-out/)

[Richard Strozzi-Heckler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-strozzi-heckler/)

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> [In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-babbage/in-mathematical-science-more-than-in-all-others-it-happens-that/)

[Charles Babbage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-babbage/)

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> [What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rei-kawakubo/what-i-want-to-express-is-a-feeling-various-emotions-that-i-am/)

[Rei Kawakubo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rei-kawakubo/)

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> [ . . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured \[England\] wrecking new weaving machines on the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-a-michener/luddites-were-those-frenzied-traditionalists-of-the-early-19th/)

[James A. Michener](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-a-michener/)

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> [The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/the-freedom-of-information-act-should-be-administered-with-a-clear/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-grimaud/the-piece-of-music-is-nothing-without-the-act-of-interpretation-that/)

[Helene Grimaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-grimaud/)

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> [Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/our-ideas-must-agree-with-realities-be-such-realities-concrete-or-2/)

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

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> [Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-t-jones/art-when-it-is-really-doing-what-it-should-do-teaches-abstract/)

[Bill T. Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-t-jones/)

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> [Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-ogilvy/some-manufacturers-illustrate-their-advertisements-with-abstract/)

[David Ogilvy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-ogilvy/)

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> [I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonas-mekas/i-m-not-an-abstract-artist-i-leave-that-to-others-to-me-abstract-art/)

[Jonas Mekas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonas-mekas/)

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> [Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meyer-schapiro/nature-and-abstract-forms-are-both-materials-for-art-and-the-choice/)

Meyer Schapiro

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> [Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-motherwell/abstract-art-is-uniquely-modern-it-is-a-fundamentally-romantic/)

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

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> [My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-p-j-abdul-kalam/my-2020-vision-for-india-is-to-transform-it-into-a-developed-nation/)

[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-p-j-abdul-kalam/)

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> [The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-irwin-thompson/the-more-chaos-there-is-the-more-science-holds-on-to-abstract-systems/)

[William Irwin Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-irwin-thompson/)

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> [The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carroll-quigley/the-process-by-which-civilization-as-an-abstract-entity-distinct-from/)

[Carroll Quigley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carroll-quigley/)

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> [Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleister-crowley/acts-which-are-essentially-dishonourable-must-not-be-done-they-would/)

[Aleister Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleister-crowley/)

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> [Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-rayner/child-poverty-is-more-than-an-abstract-problem-to-me-it-s-something-i/)

[Angela Rayner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-rayner/)

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> [There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lydia-davis/there-is-something-very-pleasing-about-the-principles-of-science-and/)

[Lydia Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lydia-davis/)

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> [For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-parla/for-me-the-canvas-is-an-abstract-interpretation-of-a-wall-it-s-a/)

[Jose Parla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jose-parla/)

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> [I have enormous affection for Bill Simmons and not just in an abstract way but a very specific way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-connelly/i-have-enormous-affection-for-bill-simmons-and-not-just-in-an/)

[Chris Connelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-connelly/)

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