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> [But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/but-the-science-of-operations-as-derived-from-mathematics-more/)

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

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> [ The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual \[through the senses\] is better than… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-hunnicutt/the-concrete-is-better-than-the-abstract-the-detail-is-better-than/)

[Ellen Hunnicutt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-hunnicutt/)

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> [When I began as an artist, I already did not like expressionism, or abstract expressionism, because abstract painting had already been done.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georg-baselitz/when-i-began-as-an-artist-i-already-did-not-like-expressionism-or/)

[Georg Baselitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georg-baselitz/)

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> [We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-warhol/we-live-in-an-age-when-the-traditional-great-subjects-the-human-form/)

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

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> [For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-ricoeur/for-my-own-part-i-abandon-the-ethics-of-duty-to-the-hegelian-critique/)

[Paul Ricoeur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-ricoeur/)

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> [A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-fraternity-is-the-antithesis-offraternity-the-first-that-is-the/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

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> [A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fulton-j-sheen/a-teacher-who-cannot-explain-any-abstract-subject-to-a-child-does-not/)

[Fulton J. Sheen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fulton-j-sheen/)

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> [With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-van-hamersveld/with-the-larry-bertlemann-portrait-i-started-with-a-photograph-that-i/)

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

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> [We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-turing/we-may-hope-that-machines-will-eventually-compete-with-men-in-all/)

[Alan Turing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-turing/)

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> [All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-diebenkorn/all-paintings-start-out-of-a-mood-out-of-a-relationship-with-things/)

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

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> [They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mulvey/they-are-in-a-sense-two-sides-of-the-same-coin-women-are-on-the-one/)

[Laura Mulvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mulvey/)

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> [Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-james/compared-with-men-it-is-probable-that-brutes-neither-attend-to/)

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

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> [And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-masters/and-so-on-until-you-arrive-at-the-other-side-among-the-purely/)

[Alexander Masters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-masters/)

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> [My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/my-own-terror-of-appearing-sentimental-is-so-strong-that-i-ve-decided/)

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

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> [In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-bacon/in-the-mathematics-i-can-report-no-deficience-except-that-it-be-that/)

[Roger Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-bacon/)

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> [Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-nagel/once-we-have-taken-the-backward-step-to-an-abstract-view-of-our-whole/)

[Thomas Nagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-nagel/)

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> [I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-ove-knausgard/i-think-there-are-a-lot-of-similarities-between-writing-and-music/)

[Karl Ove Knausgard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-ove-knausgard/)

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> [I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-hopkins/i-ve-learnt-over-the-years-to-always-be-thinking-of-titles-and-ideas/)

[Jon Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-hopkins/)

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> [There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/there-is-no-such-thing-as-abstract-marxism-only-concrete-marxism-the/)

[Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/)

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> [When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roy-blount-jr/when-money-gets-too-far-away-from-actual-physical-real-equity-and/)

[Roy Blount, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roy-blount-jr/)

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> [Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/nothing-in-these-abstract-economic-models-actually-works-in-the-real/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rice/i-tell-you-we-would-be-hard-put-to-determine-what-is-more-evil/)

[Anne Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-rice/)

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> [For me, there's the certain focus points that come out, which could reference a song or a pop disco, or something really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sue-tompkins/for-me-there-s-the-certain-focus-points-that-come-out-which-could/)

[Sue Tompkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sue-tompkins/)

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> [If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/if-we-take-in-our-hand-any-volume-of-divinity-or-school-metaphysics/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-ward/i-like-using-concrete-imagery-but-i-don-t-feel-that-s-what-it-s-about/)

[M. Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-ward/)

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> [A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-calder/a-mobile-is-an-abstract-sculpture-made-chiefly-out-of-sheet-metal/)

[Alexander Calder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-calder/)

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> [In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-levin/in-the-civil-society-the-individual-is-recognized-and-accepted-as-2/)

[Mark Levin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-levin/)

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> [It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danny-elfman/it-all-depends-on-the-directors-working-closely-with-a-director-is/)

[Danny Elfman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danny-elfman/)

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> [I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harland-williams/i-d-like-to-explore-the-more-abstract-side-of-people-s-minds-as/)

[Harland Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harland-williams/)

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> [“Reich described the redirection of unmet desires as sublimation, in which natural libidinal urges and raw bodily drives for connection and release…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurence-galian/reich-described-the-redirection-of-unmet-desires-as-sublimation-in/)

[Laurence Galian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurence-galian/)

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> [Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-b-macaulay/every-political-sect-has-its-esoteric-and-its-exoteric-school-its/)

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

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> [These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brice-marden/these-days-people-believe-they-can-go-into-art-and-make-a-living-we/)

[Brice Marden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brice-marden/)

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> [And when I say permanent afternoon, you know, I’m talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didn’t need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dj-spooky/and-when-i-say-permanent-afternoon-you-know-i-m-talking-like-crystal/)

[DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dj-spooky/)

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> [I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rafael-vinoly/i-play-only-classical-music-my-pianos-are-my-only-big-indulgence-but/)

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

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> [My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/my-connection-with-brazil-is-so-abstract-my-blood-and-my-way-of/)

[Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/)

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> [When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cronenberg/when-we-talk-about-violence-we-re-talking-about-the-destruction-of/)

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

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> [I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliot-sumner/i-make-my-songs-slightly-abstract-so-that-people-can-interpret-them/)

[Eliot Sumner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliot-sumner/)

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> [The smaller the instrument or more hidden it is such as electronics, the more esoteric it becomes and in my mind becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-deacon/the-smaller-the-instrument-or-more-hidden-it-is-such-as-electronics/)

[Dan Deacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-deacon/)

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> [ That's what I always loved about \[Federico\] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-burton/that-s-what-i-always-loved-about-federico-fellini-s-films-you-see-the/)

[Tim Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-burton/)

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> [I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenny-saville/i-want-people-to-know-what-it-is-they-re-looking-at-but-at-the-same/)

[Jenny Saville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenny-saville/)

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                        "text": "We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English.",
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                        "text": "All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression. To call this expression abstract seems to me often to confuse the issue. Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract . . . a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.",
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                        "text": "Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.",
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                        "text": "And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything good, the determination to ensure - if anyone falls into the mistake of making it clear they actually like you - that the next time round they change their opinion pronto. Emotional self-cannibalism, in other words, like those tessellated pictures of a person grappling with a mirror image of himself.",
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                        "text": "My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . . . Do you identify with a distaste/fear about sentimentality? Do you agree that, past a certain line, such distaste can turn everything arch and sneering and too ironic? Or do you have your own set of abstract questions to drive yourself nuts with?",
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                        "text": "In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except that it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.",
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                        "text": "Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.",
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