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> [Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lynch/ideas-are-like-fish-if-you-want-to-catch-little-fish-you-can-stay-in/)

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

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> [In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-blumer/in-the-abstract-art-of-cooking-ingredients-trump-appliances-passion/)

[Bob Blumer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-blumer/)

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> [Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guity-novin/seurat-and-signac-mixed-paintings-with-the-dry-and-abstract-laws-of/)

[Guity Novin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guity-novin/)

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> [You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cronenberg/you-need-language-for-thought-and-you-need-language-to-anticipate/)

[David Cronenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cronenberg/)

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> [Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-montessori/movement-or-physical-activity-is-thus-an-essential-factor-in/)

[Maria Montessori](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-montessori/)

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> [Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cronenberg/each-kid-has-a-different-level-of-expertise-and-some-of-them-are-very/)

[David Cronenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cronenberg/)

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> [What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/what-flows-into-you-from-myth-is-not-truth-but-reality-truth-is/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/washington-irving/to-one-given-to-day-dreaming-and-fond-of-losing-himself-in-reveries-a/)

[Washington Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/washington-irving/)

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> [With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-wagner/with-abstract-work-i-never-was-quite-sure-what-it-was-that-felt-right-2/)

[Kurt Wagner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-wagner/)

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> [If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-douglas/if-we-can-abstract-pathogenicity-and-hygiene-from-our-notion-of-dirt/)

[Mary Douglas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-douglas/)

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> [Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damian-loeb/every-art-critic-and-every-writer-doesn-t-have-a-frame-to-start-off/)

[Damian Loeb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damian-loeb/)

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> [Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-self/well-i-wanted-to-be-a-philosopher-which-is-the-idlest-occupation-in/)

[Will Self](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-self/)

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> [Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status, and before I had a pager, You could find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/q-tip/back-in-the-days-when-i-was-a-teenager-before-i-had-status-and-before/)

[Q-Tip](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/q-tip/)

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> [Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzan-lori-parks/some-people-think-i-am-an-issue-oriented-writer-but-i-ve-never-said/)

[Suzan-Lori Parks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzan-lori-parks/)

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> [For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-lakoff/for-centuries-we-in-the-west-have-thought-of-ourselves-as-rational/)

[George Lakoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-lakoff/)

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> [If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/if-the-topic-be-highly-abstract-show-its-nature-by-concrete-examples/)

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

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> [As Buddhist teachers often point out, knowledge, in the sense of prajña, is not knowledge about anything. There is no abstract knower…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francisco-varela/as-buddhist-teachers-often-point-out-knowledge-in-the-sense-of-praj-a/)

[Francisco Varela](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francisco-varela/)

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> [For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sergei-eisenstein/for-example-in-painting-the-form-arises-from-abstract-elements-of/)

[Sergei Eisenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sergei-eisenstein/)

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> [We know that the ability to take on complex ideas, to handle the notion of a multiplicity of viewpoints, to deal in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-rosen/we-know-that-the-ability-to-take-on-complex-ideas-to-handle-the/)

[Michael Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-rosen/)

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> [Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/peace-is-only-possible-if-men-cease-to-place-their-happiness-in-the/)

[Julien Benda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-benda/)

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> [Just 'Hear' This!!!! There was a Deer, Whose ear sensed a Bear, Deer froze with fear, Bear came near. Negotiated Deer, Dear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mohit-sharma/just-hear-this-there-was-a-deer-whose-ear-sensed-a-bear-deer-froze/)

[Mohit Sharma](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mohit-sharma/)

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> [If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arne-glimcher/if-abstract-expression-reached-for-the-sublime-pop-turned-ordinary/)

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

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> [The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-berners-lee/the-story-of-the-growth-of-the-world-wide-web-can-be-measured-by-the/)

[Tim Berners-Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-berners-lee/)

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> [And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-rauschenberg/and-also-the-new-excitement-and-variety-of-ways-that-the-abstract/)

[Robert Rauschenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-rauschenberg/)

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> [The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-simon/the-abstract-music-is-just-more-interesting-because-it-doesn-t-really/)

[Paul Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-simon/)

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> [Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gilles-deleuze/write-form-a-rhizome-increase-your-territory-by-deterritorialization/)

[Gilles Deleuze](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gilles-deleuze/)

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> [Fires and floods, we're hardwired to accept them or at least file them under Bad Things Happening. But there's something so abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lanchester/fires-and-floods-we-re-hardwired-to-accept-them-or-at-least-file-them/)

[John Lanchester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lanchester/)

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> [The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/the-appearance-and-disappearance-of-the-universe-are-pictured-as-an/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

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> [With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-patrick-king/with-a-live-audience-it-s-very-clear-when-you-ve-pushed-it-too-far-to/)

[Michael Patrick King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-patrick-king/)

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> [What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/voltaire/what-is-called-happiness-is-an-abstract-idea-composed-of-various/)

[Voltaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/voltaire/)

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> [It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-lippmann/it-is-so-much-easier-to-talk-of-poverty-than-to-think-of-the-poor-to/)

[Walter Lippmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-lippmann/)

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> [The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keats/the-roaring-of-the-wind-is-my-wife-and-the-stars-through-the-window/)

[John Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-keats/)

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> [I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudolf-nureyev/i-don-t-care-if-margot-is-a-dame-of-the-british-empire-or-older-than/)

[Rudolf Nureyev](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudolf-nureyev/)

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> [Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/old-ideas-give-way-slowly-for-they-are-more-than-abstract-logical/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-e-frankl/one-should-not-search-for-an-abstract-meaning-of-life-life-can-be/)

[Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-e-frankl/)

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> [You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/you-perceive-now-my-friends-what-your-general-or-abstract-duty-is-as/)

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

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> [The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-hedges/the-vanquished-know-war-they-see-through-the-empty-jingoism-of-those/)

[Chris Hedges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-hedges/)

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> [I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-marino/i-loathe-when-architects-only-analyze-architecture-in-intellectual/)

[Peter Marino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-marino/)

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> ['Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-abell/woman-on-the-plaza-with-its-distinct-horizon-snow-like-surfaces/)

[Sam Abell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-abell/)

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> [It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-brodsky/it-s-not-that-prison-makes-you-shed-your-abstract-notions-on-the/)

[Joseph Brodsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-brodsky/)

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                        "text": "If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.",
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                        "text": "Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.",
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                        "text": "Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue - that would make for incredibly boring writing, at least to my taste. Creating someone I don't know and her made-up world shows us more about who we are - is actually a better mirror - than if I were to parade in front of you an instantly recognizable person in an instantly recognizable situation. I'm not saying, Let's make it all abstract and weird and difficult and thereby you will know more about yourself. My process is much more organic than that.",
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                        "text": "For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our minds are abstract, logical, unemotionally rational, consciously accessible, and, above all, able to directly fit and represent the world. Language has a special place in thie view of what a human is - it is a privileged, logical symbol system internal to our minds that transparently expresses abstract concepts that are defined in terms of the external world itself.",
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                        "text": "If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long. Let your pupil wander from one aspect to another of your subject, if you do not wish him to wander from it altogether to something else, variety in unity being the secret of all interesting talk and thought.",
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                        "text": "With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse - that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.",
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