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title: "Top Abstract Quotations"
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> [Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-whitney/abstract-and-conceptual-painters-face-different-demons-than/)

[Steven Whitney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-whitney/)

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> [...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/constantin-brancusi/that-which-they-call-abstract-is-the-most-realistic-because-what-is/)

[Constantin Brancusi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/constantin-brancusi/)

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> [The idea of being Treasury secretary in the abstract appealed to me, but my initial inclination was that it wasn't right for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-paulson/the-idea-of-being-treasury-secretary-in-the-abstract-appealed-to-me/)

[Henry Paulson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-paulson/)

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> [The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bargh/the-abstract-way-we-think-is-really-grounded-in-the-concrete-bodily/)

[John Bargh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bargh/)

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> [Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/life-is-one-long-struggle-between-conclusions-based-on-abstract-ways/)

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

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> [Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gro-harlem-brundtland/let-me-first-say-that-i-don-t-think-the-millennium-target-of-cutting/)

[Gro Harlem Brundtland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gro-harlem-brundtland/)

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> [Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezekiel-emanuel/americans-tend-to-endorse-the-use-of-physician-assisted-suicide-and/)

[Ezekiel Emanuel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezekiel-emanuel/)

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> [I cannot write a novel because I cannot work in continuity. My works are more abstract, may be, I will try short…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dia-mirza/i-cannot-write-a-novel-because-i-cannot-work-in-continuity-my-works/)

[Dia Mirza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dia-mirza/)

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> [Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elisabeth-leamy/joy-rains-has-a-gift-a-gift-for-explaining-abstract-concepts-like/)

[Elisabeth Leamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elisabeth-leamy/)

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> [As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arne-glimcher/as-a-result-of-world-war-ii-european-artists-migrated-to-america/)

[Arne Glimcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arne-glimcher/)

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> [To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irena-klepfisz/to-most-middle-class-feminists-as-to-most-middle-class-non-feminists/)

[Irena Klepfisz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irena-klepfisz/)

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> [Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-adamson/plotinus-when-he-thinks-about-mind-or-intellect-the-greek-word-is/)

[Peter Adamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-adamson/)

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> [The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teresa-wright/the-type-of-contract-between-players-and-producers-is-i-feel/)

[Teresa Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teresa-wright/)

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> [Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-rogat-loeb/hope-isn-t-an-abstract-theory-about-where-human-aspirations-end-and/)

[Paul Rogat Loeb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-rogat-loeb/)

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> [...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-materialism-of-modern-civilization-is-paradoxically-founded-on-a/)

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

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> [We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giacomo-balla/we-shall-find-the-abstract-equivalent-for-all-forms-elements-in-the/)

[Giacomo Balla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giacomo-balla/)

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> [I love going to the runway shows. It's not so much for me a shopping trip as it is the appreciation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-schuman/i-love-going-to-the-runway-shows-it-s-not-so-much-for-me-a-shopping/)

[Scott Schuman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-schuman/)

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> [Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-stella/abstraction-didn-t-have-to-be-limited-to-a-kind-of-rectilinear/)

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

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> [Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/our-visual-cortexes-are-wired-to-quickly-recognize-faces-and-then/)

[Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/)

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> [The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orlando-figes/the-link-between-literacy-and-revolutions-is-a-well-known-historical/)

[Orlando Figes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orlando-figes/)

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> [Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-von-bertalanffy/thus-even-supposedly-unadulterated-facts-of-observation-already-are/)

[Ludwig von Bertalanffy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-von-bertalanffy/)

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> [“From the study of the development of human intelligence, in all directions, and through all times, the discovery arises of a great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/auguste-comte/from-the-study-of-the-development-of-human-intelligence-in-all/)

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

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> [I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cage/i-imagine-that-as-contemporary-music-goes-on-changing-in-the-way-that/)

[John Cage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cage/)

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> [When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/when-a-young-person-even-a-gifted-one-grows-up-without-proximate/)

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

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> [The good thing I will say about the Chicago School is that it was always about the world, not about the abstract.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-thaler/the-good-thing-i-will-say-about-the-chicago-school-is-that-it-was/)

[Richard Thaler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-thaler/)

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> [Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carlo-carra/constructions-of-a-rhythmical-forms-the-clash-between-concrete-and/)

[Carlo Carra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carlo-carra/)

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> [I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-abstract/i-really-want-to-only-put-out-three-projects-from-kevin-abstract-as/)

[Kevin Abstract](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-abstract/)

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> [My music is rather abstract and maybe even strange-sounding for some people, so maybe that's why it's been used in so many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/krzysztof-penderecki/my-music-is-rather-abstract-and-maybe-even-strange-sounding-for-some/)

[Krzysztof Penderecki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/krzysztof-penderecki/)

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> [It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/it-would-not-be-easy-even-for-an-unbeliever-to-find-a-better/)

[John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stuart-mill/)

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> [I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cindy-sherman/i-am-fine-though-it-is-hard-to-think-of-what-kind-of-work-to-make-at/)

[Cindy Sherman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cindy-sherman/)

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> [Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-stein/everything-abstract-is-ultimately-part-of-the-concrete-everything/)

[Edith Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-stein/)

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> [If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/temple-grandin/if-language-naturally-evolves-to-serve-the-needs-of-tiny-rodents-with/)

[Temple Grandin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/temple-grandin/)

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> [The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/the-whole-body-of-what-is-now-called-moral-or-ethical-truth-existed/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-moore/all-good-art-has-contained-both-abstract-and-surrealist-elements-just/)

[Henry Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-moore/)

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> [The music should highlight nuances within a collection. I always discard my initial music selection, but it's important to get those more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mia-moretti/the-music-should-highlight-nuances-within-a-collection-i-always/)

[Mia Moretti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mia-moretti/)

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> [I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grimes/i-want-to-say-my-life-inspires-my-lyrics-but-i-also-try-to-abstract/)

[Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grimes/)

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> [Sometimes it happens that the computer's assessment is very abstract. It's correct, but it's not useful for a practical game. You have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vassily-ivanchuk/sometimes-it-happens-that-the-computer-s-assessment-is-very-abstract/)

[Vassily Ivanchuk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vassily-ivanchuk/)

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> [The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aaron-siskind/the-only-other-things-i-got-from-the-abstract-expressionists-is-the/)

[Aaron Siskind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aaron-siskind/)

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> [Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lynch/stories-have-tangents-they-open-up-and-become-different-things-you/)

[David Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lynch/)

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> [Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-jones/ludicrous-concepts-like-the-whole-idea-of-a-war-on-terrorism-you-can/)

[Terry Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-jones/)

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                        "text": "Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose. The choice is not whether to remain in the field of data or to theorize; the choice is only between models that are more or less abstract, generalized, near or more remote from direct observation, more or less suitable to represent observed phenomena.",
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