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title: "Great Abstract Quotations"
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> [The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leroy-neiman/the-big-shock-of-my-life-was-abstract-expressionism-pollock-de/)

[LeRoy Neiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leroy-neiman/)

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> [I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-fenimore-cooper/i-sometimes-wish-i-had-been-educated-a-catholic-in-order-to-unite-the/)

[James Fenimore Cooper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-fenimore-cooper/)

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> [A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-colen/a-lot-of-my-work-is-about-what-s-abstract-and-what-s-pictorial-is-it/)

[Dan Colen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-colen/)

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> [To me, it seems more realistic to my thought process when things feel a little scattered in the lyrics. Being disjointed is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aesop-rock/to-me-it-seems-more-realistic-to-my-thought-process-when-things-feel/)

[Aesop Rock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aesop-rock/)

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> [Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/abstract-work-if-one-wishes-to-do-it-well-must-be-allowed-to-destroy/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [terrorism is interesting to a novelist because it's a crime that's driven by an idea, as opposed to some kind of base…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karan-mahajan/terrorism-is-interesting-to-a-novelist-because-it-s-a-crime-that-s/)

[Karan Mahajan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karan-mahajan/)

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> [The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derrick-jensen/the-process-of-schooling-does-not-give-birth-to-human-beings-as/)

[Derrick Jensen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derrick-jensen/)

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> [When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-mumford/when-art-seems-to-be-empty-of-meaning-as-no-doubt-some-of-the/)

[Lewis Mumford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-mumford/)

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> [Soldiers join the military to serve their country, but when bullets are flying, it's hard to fight for an abstract notion like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-junger/soldiers-join-the-military-to-serve-their-country-but-when-bullets/)

[Sebastian Junger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-junger/)

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> [Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-heaviside/electric-and-magnetic-forces-may-they-live-for-ever-and-never-be/)

[Oliver Heaviside](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-heaviside/)

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> [I met Michael Snow and Stan Brakhage the second day after I arrived, you know. I had never seen or heard of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/babette-mangolte/i-met-michael-snow-and-stan-brakhage-the-second-day-after-i-arrived/)

[Babette Mangolte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/babette-mangolte/)

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> [The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/the-new-tinge-to-modern-minds-is-a-vehement-and-passionate-interest/)

[Alfred North Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-north-whitehead/)

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> [When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/when-for-example-in-the-name-of-non-discrimination-people-try-to/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tod-machover/i-started-realizing-that-one-of-the-great-things-about-opera-is-that/)

[Tod Machover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tod-machover/)

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> [At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-cronon/at-a-time-when-threats-to-the-physical-environment-have-never-been/)

[William Cronon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-cronon/)

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> [I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-feuerbach/i-have-always-taken-as-the-standard-of-the-mode-of-teaching-and/)

[Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-feuerbach/)

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> [I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-can-picture-the-color-of-the-song-or-the-shape-of-it-or-who-it-is/)

[Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/)

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> [Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-rosenberg/abstract-art-as-it-is-conceived-at-present-is-a-game-bequeathed-to/)

[Harold Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-rosenberg/)

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> [I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kerry-washington/i-think-most-people-when-they-think-about-the-black-panther-party/)

[Kerry Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kerry-washington/)

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> [I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/solange-knowles/i-love-when-rappers-have-a-off-beat-very-abstract-timing-and-he/)

[Solange Knowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/solange-knowles/)

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> [This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-marcus/this-is-the-universal-property-of-the-human-mind-abstract-rules-form/)

[Gary Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-marcus/)

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> [If the photographer is to create works that will stand for his spirit in the same way as artists in other genres,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yukio-mishima/if-the-photographer-is-to-create-works-that-will-stand-for-his-spirit/)

[Yukio Mishima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yukio-mishima/)

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> [The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-tynan/the-buttocks-are-the-most-aesthetically-pleasing-part-of-the-body/)

[Kenneth Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-tynan/)

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> [People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlie-kirk/people-start-to-yawn-when-you-warn-them-about-a-move-toward-socialism/)

[Charlie Kirk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlie-kirk/)

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> [In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-gell-mann/in-our-work-we-are-always-between-scylla-and-charybdis-we-may-fail-to/)

[Murray Gell-Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-gell-mann/)

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> [It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johnny-flynn/it-s-great-being-an-actor-and-being-part-of-a-play-or-a-film-where/)

[Johnny Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johnny-flynn/)

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> [I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-william-scott/i-am-an-abstract-artist-in-the-sense-that-i-abstract-i-cannot-be/)

[Sean William Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-william-scott/)

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> [...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/virginia-gildersleeve/at-this-stage-in-the-advancement-of-women-the-best-policy-for-them-is/)

[Virginia Gildersleeve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/virginia-gildersleeve/)

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> [Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erin-mckeown/lenelle-mo-se-s-poems-render-the-abstract-policy-disaster-history/)

[Erin McKeown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erin-mckeown/)

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> [Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zaha-hadid/malevitch-discovered-abstraction-as-an-experimental-principle-that/)

[Zaha Hadid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zaha-hadid/)

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> [There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-j-martin/there-are-opposing-forces-in-all-living-things-my-work-reflects-this/)

[Eugene J. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-j-martin/)

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> [I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-s-crisp/i-understand-that-words-can-mean-different-things-to-different-people/)

[Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-s-crisp/)

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> [I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-greenberg/i-came-to-new-york-and-it-was-fascinating-and-intimidating-and/)

[Richard Greenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-greenberg/)

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> [Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/facts-are-the-mere-dross-of-history-it-is-from-the-abstract-truth/)

[Thomas B. Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-b-macaulay/)

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> [The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandre-kojeve/the-man-who-works-recognizes-his-own-product-in-the-world-that-has/)

[Alexandre Kojeve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandre-kojeve/)

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> [It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-h-winters/it-is-really-something-the-extent-to-which-we-allow-ourselves-to-live/)

[Ben H. Winters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-h-winters/)

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> [As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-shermer/as-enlightenment-philosophers-and-scholars-consciously-adopted-the/)

[Michael Shermer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-shermer/)

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> [The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-meyer/the-physical-five-oranges-goes-up-the-ladder-to-the-picture-of-the/)

[Dan Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-meyer/)

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> [Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomas-transtromer/every-abstract-picture-of-the-world-is-as-impossible-as-a-blueprint/)

[Tomas Transtromer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tomas-transtromer/)

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> [When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/when-needs-and-means-become-abstract-in-quality-abstraction-is-also-a/)

[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel/)

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