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title: "Top Abstract Proverbs"
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> [Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/abstract-art-is-only-painting-and-what-s-so-dramatic-about-that-there/)

[Pablo Picasso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pablo-picasso/)

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> [Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-rockefeller/mother-liked-beauty-wherever-she-found-it-and-she-found-it-in-many/)

[David Rockefeller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-rockefeller/)

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> [O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-aragon/o-reason-reason-abstract-phantom-of-the-waking-state-i-had-already/)

[Louis Aragon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-aragon/)

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> [The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-g-frazer/the-man-of-science-like-the-man-of-letters-is-too-apt-to-view-mankind/)

[James G. Frazer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-g-frazer/)

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> [I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-lichtenstein/i-don-t-think-that-my-art-isn-t-serious-i-think-the-subjects-are-not/)

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

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> [It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giorgio-armani/it-is-difficult-to-talk-about-fashion-in-the-abstract-without-a-human/)

[Giorgio Armani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giorgio-armani/)

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> [I'm a big fan of horror films, particularly 'Friday the 13th.' It's one of the only genres that weaves abstract experimental techniques…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/weyes-blood/i-m-a-big-fan-of-horror-films-particularly-friday-the-13th-it-s-one/)

[Weyes Blood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/weyes-blood/)

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> [Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-motherwell/nothing-as-drastic-an-innovation-as-abstract-art-could-have-come-in/)

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

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> [Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-rinella/maybe-stalking-the-woods-is-as-vital-to-the-human-condition-as/)

[Steven Rinella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-rinella/)

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> [Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-cheeke/do-we-as-humans-having-an-ability-to-reason-and-to-communicate/)

Peter Cheeke

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> [A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/a-real-spirituality-must-be-rooted-in-earthliness-any-spirituality/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-savage/we-ve-had-a-culture-war-roaring-away-and-the-kinds-of-people-who-want/)

[Dan Savage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-savage/)

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> [No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-k-samson/no-one-else-writes-like-gord-downie-so-it-s-difficult-to-compare-him/)

[John K. Samson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-k-samson/)

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> [As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-howard-kunstler/as-the-places-where-americans-dwell-become-evermore-depressing-and/)

[James Howard Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-howard-kunstler/)

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> [One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/one-might-suppose-that-reality-must-be-held-to-at-all-costs-however/)

[Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/)

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> [Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-klosterman/everyone-knows-history-is-written-by-the-winners-but-that-cliche/)

[Chuck Klosterman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-klosterman/)

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> [I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, "Didn't you want to get married?" Well, sure, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/condoleezza-rice/i-never-found-anybody-i-wanted-to-spend-my-life-with-people-say-didn/)

[Condoleezza Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/condoleezza-rice/)

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> [I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/i-don-t-like-the-word-abstractions-very-much-because-most-people-don/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [In the documentary impulse, two species of 'fact' exist side by side: one is coolly objective and the other is fraught, diverse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-franklin/in-the-documentary-impulse-two-species-of-fact-exist-side-by-side-one/)

[Stuart Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-franklin/)

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> [I'm sad to admit that I have very, very few memories of my father because, not only did he die when I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lux-pascal/i-m-sad-to-admit-that-i-have-very-very-few-memories-of-my-father/)

[Lux Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lux-pascal/)

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> [In the abstract world of American economists, equations run both ways; they believe that by changing the sign of a variable from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-gilpin/in-the-abstract-world-of-american-economists-equations-run-both-ways/)

[Robert Gilpin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-gilpin/)

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> [That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/that-is-my-morality-or-my-metaphysics-or-me-myself-a-passer-by-in/)

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

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> [For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to bring to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-rocker/for-the-anarchist-freedom-is-not-an-abstract-philosophical-concept-2/)

[Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-rocker/)

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> [Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-alinsky/change-means-movement-movement-means-friction-only-in-the/)

[Saul Alinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-alinsky/)

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> [Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benoit-mandelbrot/everybody-in-mathematics-had-given-up-for-100-years-or-200-years-the/)

[Benoit Mandelbrot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benoit-mandelbrot/)

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> [Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-tammet/someone-who-copies-a-van-gogh-does-not-therefore-become-van-gogh-and/)

[Daniel Tammet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-tammet/)

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> [The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/the-complexity-of-software-is-an-essential-property-not-an-accidental/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

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> [When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-han/when-a-person-you-love-dies-it-doesn-t-feel-real-it-s-like-it-s/)

[Jenny Han](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-han/)

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> [The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-watt/the-engine-room-really-is-a-metaphor-for-my-head-and-all-the-things/)

[Mike Watt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-watt/)

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> [I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-warhol/i-think-they-should-have-movies-in-restaurants-i-can-t-believe-that/)

[Andy Warhol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-warhol/)

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> [Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-duhigg/someone-will-write-a-resolution-that-says-i-want-to-exercise-more-or/)

[Charles Duhigg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-duhigg/)

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> [The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-hertzfeldt/the-design-is-a-really-flat-primary-color-with-all-sorts-of-abstract/)

[Don Hertzfeldt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-hertzfeldt/)

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> [There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-william-curtis/there-is-very-little-moral-mixture-in-the-antislavery-feeling-of-this/)

[George William Curtis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-william-curtis/)

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> [Clothes are only completed when somebody actually wears them. If they were art, they could be more abstract. As long as something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rei-kawakubo/clothes-are-only-completed-when-somebody-actually-wears-them-if-they/)

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

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> [A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robinson-jeffers/a-little-too-abstract-a-little-too-wise-it-is-time-for-us-to-kiss-the/)

[Robinson Jeffers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robinson-jeffers/)

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> [It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hubert-h-humphrey/it-is-all-too-easy-for-a-society-to-measure-itself-against-some/)

[Hubert H. Humphrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hubert-h-humphrey/)

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> [ Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history \[Entwickelungsgeschichte\] of the abstract, genealogical individual;… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernst-haeckel/phylogeny-and-ontogeny-are-therefore-the-two-coordinated-branches-of/)

[Ernst Haeckel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernst-haeckel/)

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> [Everybody just wants to appreciate time as it's passing, to be in the moment. It's the hardest thing to do. You're either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-linklater/everybody-just-wants-to-appreciate-time-as-it-s-passing-to-be-in-the/)

[Richard Linklater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-linklater/)

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> [I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-michel-basquiat/i-was-a-really-lousy-artist-as-a-kid-too-abstract-expressionist-or-i/)

[Jean-Michel Basquiat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-michel-basquiat/)

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> [The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hu-shih/the-knowledge-that-mankind-needs-is-not-the-way-or-principle-which/)

[Hu Shih](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hu-shih/)

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                        "text": "Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way.",
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                        "text": "Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?",
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                        "text": "A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more blood in it; it is no more alive. Yes, Jews are very earth-bound. And what is wrong in having money? One should not be possessive; one should be able to use it. And Jews know how to use it! One should not be miserly. Money has to be created and money has to be used. Money is a beautiful invention, a great blessing, if rightly used. It makes many things possible. Money is a magical phenomenon.",
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                        "text": "We've had a culture war roaring away, and the kinds of people who want to abuse and discriminate against gay people who are adults can't really lay their hands on us unless they want to be gay-bashers and go to jail. They abuse us from afar and in the abstract, they abuse us with checkbooks and ballots, but their kids go to school on Monday morning. And there's a gay kid. And they feel they have license to beat that gay kid up in a way that I don't think they did when I was in school. I think it's gotten worse.",
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                        "text": "No one else writes like Gord Downie, so it's difficult to compare him. He can work in the abstract and still somehow be really specific. He lets parts of his consciousness in that most writers aren't able to do, myself included. I don't feel like I have that access to the surreal and the somehow beautifully meaningful non-sequitur - that fits perfectly. I can never figure that out, how he does that.",
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                        "text": "As the places where Americans dwell become evermore depressing and impossible, Disneyworld is where they escape to worship the nation in the abstract, a cartoon capital of a cartoon republic enshrining the falsehoods, half-truths, and delusions that prop up the squishy thing the national character has become--for instance, that we are a nation of families; that we care about our fellow citizens; that history matters; that there is a place called home.",
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                        "text": "One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.",
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                        "text": "Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.",
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