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title: "Top Abstract Thoughts"
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> [You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/annie-lennox/you-re-never-quite-sure-where-the-song-is-going-because-you-might-not/)

[Annie Lennox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/annie-lennox/)

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> [Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-arnheim/just-as-a-chemist-isolates-a-substance-from-contaminations-that/)

[Rudolf Arnheim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-arnheim/)

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> [Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerhard-richter/experience-has-proved-that-there-is-no-difference-between-a-so-called/)

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

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> [Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/probably-the-most-dangerous-thing-about-college-education-at-least-in/)

[David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/)

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> [It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/it-is-fairly-easy-to-grasp-abstract-moral-principles-it-can-be-very/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-white/america-thrives-on-identity-politics-left-and-right-but-france-is/)

[Edmund White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-white/)

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> [I've always had an artistic hand. I took on paint when I started falling in love with the abstract expressionists. I approached…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-zane/i-ve-always-had-an-artistic-hand-i-took-on-paint-when-i-started/)

[Billy Zane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-zane/)

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> [Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-jarmusch/film-relates-to-almost-every-other-form-of-expression-but-poetry-is-a/)

[Jim Jarmusch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-jarmusch/)

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> [“Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erich-fromm/freedom-is-not-a-constant-attribute-which-we-either-have-or-have-not/)

[Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erich-fromm/)

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> [At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-horkheimer/at-present-when-the-prevailing-forms-of-society-have-become/)

[Max Horkheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-horkheimer/)

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> [The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thucydides/the-peloponnesian-war-turns-out-to-be-no-dry-chronicle-of-abstract/)

[Thucydides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thucydides/)

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> [Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-scott-peck/community-is-another-such-phenomenon-like-electricity-it-is/)

[M. Scott Peck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-scott-peck/)

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> [All human populations are in some sense immigrants. All hostility between different cultures in one place has an aspect of the classic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neal-ascherson/all-human-populations-are-in-some-sense-immigrants-all-hostility/)

[Neal Ascherson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neal-ascherson/)

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> [At least three time per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/at-least-three-time-per-day-at-scheduled-times-he-had-to-ask-himself/)

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

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> [The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/the-fact-that-astrology-nevertheless-yields-valid-results-proves-that/)

[Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-jung/)

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> [The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maimonides/the-corporeal-element-in-man-is-a-large-screen-and-partition-that/)

[Maimonides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maimonides/)

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> [Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mumford/algebraic-geometry-seems-to-have-acquired-the-reputation-of-being/)

[David Mumford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mumford/)

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> [ People are very good \[at\] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-kahneman/people-are-very-good-at-thinking-about-agents-the-mind-is-set-really/)

[Daniel Kahneman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-kahneman/)

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> [When I started to do these Pop paintings seriously, I used all these other paintings - the abstract ones - as mats.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/when-i-started-to-do-these-pop-paintings-seriously-i-used-all-these/)

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

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> [When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-ive/when-you-re-trying-to-solve-a-problem-on-a-new-product-type-you/)

[Jonathan Ive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-ive/)

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> [In abstract painting, I worried about the limited range of possibilities that, as time went on, became increasingly important to me. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-diebenkorn/in-abstract-painting-i-worried-about-the-limited-range-of/)

[Richard Diebenkorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-diebenkorn/)

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> [Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/our-vanity-our-passions-our-spirit-of-imitation-our-abstract/)

[Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/)

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> [I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salma-hayek/i-m-a-bit-of-an-abstract-figure-that-people-can-project-their/)

[Salma Hayek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salma-hayek/)

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> [I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/i-don-t-want-my-generals-or-my-defense-secretary-or-my-national/)

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

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> [A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/a-work-of-art-is-an-abstract-or-epitome-of-the-world-it-is-the-result/)

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

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> [Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-westney/music-the-most-abstract-and-uncanny-art-is-an-eternal-river-of-sound/)

[William Westney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-westney/)

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> [I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-braxton/i-had-never-thought-that-i-would-be-involved-in-narrative-structures/)

[Anthony Braxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-braxton/)

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> [Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jose-parla/sometimes-i-think-i-shouldn-t-explain-much-about-my-work-because/)

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

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> [The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodor-svedberg/the-investigations-which-have-seemingly-been-the-most-purely-abstract/)

[Theodor Svedberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodor-svedberg/)

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> [At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-krakauer/at-that-stage-of-my-youth-death-remained-as-abstract-a-concept-as-non/)

[Jon Krakauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-krakauer/)

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> [Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-beckmann/height-width-and-depth-are-the-three-phenomena-which-i-must-transfer/)

[Max Beckmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-beckmann/)

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> [I think, first and foremost ,Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kathryn-lasky/i-think-first-and-foremost-marie-antoinette-was-intellectually/)

[Kathryn Lasky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kathryn-lasky/)

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> [Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/language-is-not-an-abstract-construction-of-the-learned-or-of/)

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

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> [The unique eludes us; yet we remain faithful to the ideal of it; and in spite of sense and of our merely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josiah-royce/the-unique-eludes-us-yet-we-remain-faithful-to-the-ideal-of-it-and-in/)

[Josiah Royce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josiah-royce/)

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> [The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-eagleton/the-british-are-supposed-to-be-particularly-averse-to-intellectuals-a/)

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

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> [I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-dyson/i-m-not-into-politics-but-i-am-committed-to-a-cause-ensuring-design/)

[James Dyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-dyson/)

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> [Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nigel-cooke/small-thoughts-grow-into-a-picture-it-may-suggest-an-individual-or-it/)

[Nigel Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nigel-cooke/)

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> [I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-steir/i-consider-my-work-non-objective-and-i-think-abstract-is-an/)

[Pat Steir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-steir/)

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> [In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-van-hamersveld/in-1971-i-put-together-the-johnny-face-drawing-as-a-concept-with-the/)

[John Van Hamersveld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-van-hamersveld/)

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> [The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/auguste-comte/the-law-is-this-that-each-of-our-leading-conceptions-each-branch-of/)

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

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