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> [Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-rand/pictures-abstract-symbols-materials-and-colors-are-among-the/)

[Paul Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-rand/)

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> [As a general habit and general tendency, I prefer not to bog a piece down with a great number of transitory, contemporary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-leigh/as-a-general-habit-and-general-tendency-i-prefer-not-to-bog-a-piece/)

[Mike Leigh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-leigh/)

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> [The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-katz/the-abstract-expressionists-had-that-thing-of-subject-matter-becomes/)

[Alex Katz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-katz/)

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> [I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/i-hate-crowds-and-making-speeches-i-hate-facing-cameras-and-having-to/)

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

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> [Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-musil/is-not-art-a-tool-we-employ-to-peel-the-kitsch-off-life-layer-by/)

[Robert Musil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-musil/)

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> [Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wassily-kandinsky/of-all-the-arts-abstract-painting-is-the-most-difficult-it-demands/)

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

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> [To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/to-die-to-decide-to-die-that-s-much-easier-for-an-adolescent-than-for/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicola-chiaromonte/it-is-only-through-fiction-and-the-dimension-of-the-imaginary-that-we/)

[Nicola Chiaromonte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicola-chiaromonte/)

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> [If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-murray/if-you-hand-an-adult-a-lump-of-clay-they-re-likely-to-respond-by/)

[Keith Murray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-murray/)

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> [Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/since-my-logic-aims-to-teach-and-instruct-the-understanding-not-that/)

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

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> [There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway/there-were-many-words-that-you-could-not-stand-to-hear-and-finally-2/)

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

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> [No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-clark/no-nude-however-abstract-should-fail-to-arouse-in-the-spectator-some/)

[Kenneth Clark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-clark/)

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> [I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-wiseman/i-think-i-ve-learned-a-lot-about-how-to-make-movies-and-particularly/)

[Frederick Wiseman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-wiseman/)

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> [I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-dillon/i-just-really-enjoying-creating-in-general-i-used-to-also-write/)

[Julie Dillon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-dillon/)

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> [I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurens-van-der-post/i-suspect-it-was-the-old-story-of-the-implacable-necessity-of-a-man/)

[Laurens van der Post](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurens-van-der-post/)

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> [I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giorgio-morandi/i-believe-that-nothing-can-be-more-abstract-more-unreal-than-what-we/)

[Giorgio Morandi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giorgio-morandi/)

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> [Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/basically-sherri-s-idea-had-to-do-with-bringing-fat-s-mind-down-from/)

[Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/)

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> [Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-adorno/bourgeois-society-is-ruled-by-equivalence-it-makes-the-dissimilar/)

[Theodor Adorno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-adorno/)

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> [From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vidya-balan/from-shakespeare-to-robi-thakur-everyone-has-written-stories-about/)

[Vidya Balan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vidya-balan/)

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> [Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-cobbett/freedom-is-not-an-empty-sound-it-is-not-an-abstract-idea-it-is-not-a/)

[William Cobbett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-cobbett/)

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> [In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-abstract-mathematics-of-course-operations-alter-those-particular/)

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

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> [ Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like \[Mahatma\] Gandhi and setting him on a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-glass/theatrical-times-are-different-from-concert-times-to-put-it-simply/)

[Philip Glass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-glass/)

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> [There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epicurus/there-is-no-such-thing-as-justice-in-the-abstract-it-is-merely-a-2/)

[Epicurus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epicurus/)

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> [I'm very interested in the distance and the space between those two poles: very concrete, song-based stuff on the one hand and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-ranaldo/i-m-very-interested-in-the-distance-and-the-space-between-those-two/)

[Lee Ranaldo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-ranaldo/)

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> [The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sandra-day-o-connor/the-constitution-does-not-protect-the-sovereignty-of-states-for-the/)

[Sandra Day O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sandra-day-o-connor/)

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> [I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/i-do-not-see-any-essential-difference-between-abstract-and-primitive/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-slick/the-way-i-paint-is-similar-to-rock-in-that-you-don-t-stand-around-and/)

[Grace Slick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-slick/)

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> [That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/that-is-what-the-highest-criticism-really-is-the-record-of-one-s-own/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-kentridge/the-drawings-don-t-start-with-a-beautiful-mark-it-has-to-be-a-mark-of/)

[William Kentridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-kentridge/)

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> [If sustainability is going to take hold in the corporate sector in a big way - and we need it to -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-gilding/if-sustainability-is-going-to-take-hold-in-the-corporate-sector-in-a/)

[Paul Gilding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-gilding/)

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> [Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marisha-pessl/certainly-one-of-the-surprising-truths-of-having-a-book-published-is/)

[Marisha Pessl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marisha-pessl/)

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> [Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rafael-vinoly/music-first-of-all-is-completely-about-abstraction-which-is-exactly/)

[Rafael Vinoly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rafael-vinoly/)

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> [The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/the-abstract-intelligence-produces-a-fatigue-that-s-the-worst-of-all/)

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

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> [Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-reinking/dancing-is-the-personification-of-music-and-music-is-an-abstract/)

[Ann Reinking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-reinking/)

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> [ I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of \[my\] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-eggleston/i-ve-always-assumed-that-the-abstract-qualities-of-my-photographs-are/)

[William Eggleston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-eggleston/)

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> [I don't know if embarrassed is the right word, about pop, but I prefer the abstract and the distorted in music. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-pierce/i-don-t-know-if-embarrassed-is-the-right-word-about-pop-but-i-prefer/)

[Jason Pierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-pierce/)

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> [I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antoni-tapies/i-often-told-the-fanatics-of-realism-that-there-is-no-such-thing-as/)

[Antoni Tapies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antoni-tapies/)

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> [We know how to work certain toys, and if you've got something in your head you know how to get in on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jez-williams/we-know-how-to-work-certain-toys-and-if-you-ve-got-something-in-your/)

[Jez Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jez-williams/)

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> [Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/existentialism-does-not-offer-to-the-reader-the-consolations-of-an/)

[Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/)

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> [ Music, I find, gets you out of a trap \[when screenwriting\], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-grisoni/music-i-find-gets-you-out-of-a-trap-when-screenwriting-because-it/)

[Tony Grisoni](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-grisoni/)

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                        "text": "To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.",
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                        "text": "If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something \"real\" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale.",
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                        "text": "Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things.",
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                        "text": "There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.",
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                        "text": "I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how similar problems are resolved in other forms. The issues in all forms are the same in an abstract sense, aren't they? Characterization, abstraction, metaphor, passage of time... Whether it's a movie, a novel, a play, or a poem, those issues exist. And each person resolves them differently.",
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                        "text": "I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration ended up being the creative outlet that I focused on for my career. I feel like illustration gives me the flexibility to tackle more abstract or loose ideas, as well as just enjoy the process of putting time into developing a skill.",
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