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title: "Best Abstract Lines"
description: "Browse 1,403 Abstract quotes by 1,054 authors. Discover the best Abstract sayings and thoughts."
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> [A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-demme/a-trilogy-is-a-pretty-abstract-notion-you-can-apply-it-to-almost-any/)

[Jonathan Demme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-demme/)

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> [Genuine citations often lack corporate glitteriness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mohit-sharma/genuine-citations-often-lack-corporate-glitteriness/)

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

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> [I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hamza-yusuf/i-think-that-the-idea-of-a-war-on-an-abstract-noun-is-unacceptable/)

[Hamza Yusuf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hamza-yusuf/)

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> [Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-luc-godard/cinema-is-not-a-series-of-abstract-ideas-but-rather-the-phrasing-of/)

[Jean-Luc Godard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-luc-godard/)

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> [We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-kador/we-value-apology-in-the-abstract-but-turn-our-backs-on-it-in-practice/)

[John Kador](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-kador/)

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> [Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-polkinghorne/mathematics-is-the-abstract-key-which-turns-the-lock-of-the-physical/)

[John Polkinghorne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-polkinghorne/)

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> [The power to love what is purely abstract is given to few.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margot-asquith/the-power-to-love-what-is-purely-abstract-is-given-to-few/)

[Margot Asquith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margot-asquith/)

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> [abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/piet-mondrian/abstract-art-is-not-the-creation-of-another-reality-but-the-true/)

[Piet Mondrian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/piet-mondrian/)

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> [Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dale-jamieson/philosophers-tend-to-radically-underestimate-the-distance-between/)

[Dale Jamieson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dale-jamieson/)

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> [My aim is for every song to have a purpose - for you to be able to say, 'This song is about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-lekman/my-aim-is-for-every-song-to-have-a-purpose-for-you-to-be-able-to-say/)

[Jens Lekman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jens-lekman/)

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> [The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/the-love-of-the-famous-like-all-strong-passions-is-quite-abstract-its/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-balanchine/storyless-is-not-abstract-two-dancers-on-the-stage-are-enough/)

[George Balanchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-balanchine/)

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> [I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-am-not-comfortable-with-abstract-writing-stories-that-look-like/)

[Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/)

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> [It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/atom-egoyan/it-is-about-this-very-abstract-sense-of-displacement-that-he-feels/)

[Atom Egoyan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/atom-egoyan/)

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> [Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/of-all-my-russian-books-the-defense-contains-and-diffuses-the/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-walken/the-minute-i-start-to-talk-about-acting-i-realize-that-i-can-t-you/)

[Christopher Walken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-walken/)

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> [One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-smithson/one-s-mind-and-the-earth-are-in-a-constant-state-of-erosion-mental/)

[Robert Smithson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-smithson/)

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> [If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ralston-saul/if-you-live-in-a-democracy-it-s-very-tiring-to-be-always-surrounded/)

[John Ralston Saul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ralston-saul/)

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> [I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaux-williamson/i-was-struggling-to-figure-out-how-to-combine-the-abstract-and-the/)

[Margaux Williamson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaux-williamson/)

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> [When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damien-hirst/when-i-used-to-do-abstract-paintings-at-school-like-everyone-else-the/)

[Damien Hirst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damien-hirst/)

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> [That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvine-welsh/that-s-all-very-well-as-an-abstract-moral-principle-avril-a-coffee/)

[Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvine-welsh/)

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> [“I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/i-would-like-to-say-to-those-who-think-of-my-pictures-as-serene/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

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> [The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmanuel-lubezki/the-language-of-film-is-further-and-further-away-from-the-language-of/)

[Emmanuel Lubezki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmanuel-lubezki/)

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> [We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-everett-just/we-feel-the-beauty-of-nature-because-we-are-part-of-nature-and/)

[Ernest Everett Just](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-everett-just/)

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> [It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/it-is-impossible-not-to-feel-stirred-at-the-thought-of-the-emotions/)

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

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> [Education as the practice of freedom--as opposed to education as the practice of domination--denies that man is abstract, isolated, independent and unattached…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-freire/education-as-the-practice-of-freedom-as-opposed-to-education-as-the/)

[Paulo Freire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-freire/)

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> [Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanton-t-friedman/abstract-careful-review-of-a-vast-array-of-relevant-evidence-clearly/)

[Stanton T. Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanton-t-friedman/)

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> [For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-roberts/for-many-people-during-many-centuries-mankind-s-history-before-the/)

[John Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-roberts/)

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> [Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-coase/economics-over-the-years-has-become-more-and-more-abstract-and/)

[Ronald Coase](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-coase/)

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> [It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-gerrard/it-is-the-artist-s-responsibility-to-be-the-oracle-to-abstract-where/)

[Lisa Gerrard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-gerrard/)

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> [The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-perkins-gilman/the-soaring-imaginative-minds-of-men-constructing-lofty-shimmering/)

[Charlotte Perkins Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-perkins-gilman/)

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> [A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/a-hideous-ecstasy-of-fear-and-vindictiveness-a-desire-to-kill-to/)

[George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/)

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> [To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-shahn/to-abstract-is-to-draw-out-the-essence-of-a-matter/)

[Ben Shahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-shahn/)

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> [I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colin-marston/i-always-just-been-a-fan-of-the-music-and-the-aesthetic-only-in-an/)

[Colin Marston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colin-marston/)

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> [I try to make concrete that which is abstract.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-gris/i-try-to-make-concrete-that-which-is-abstract/)

[Juan Gris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-gris/)

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> [Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shankar-mahadevan/music-is-so-abstract-it-is-a-combination-of-words-and-melody/)

[Shankar Mahadevan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shankar-mahadevan/)

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> [There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-roosevelt/there-is-more-fine-abstract-design-in-navajo-rugs-than-in-all-these/)

[Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-roosevelt/)

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> [“The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-north-whitehead/the-certainty-of-mathematics-depends-on-its-complete-abstract/)

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

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> [Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/remember-boredom-is-the-enemy-not-some-abstract-failure/)

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

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> [To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/to-those-who-have-exhausted-politics-nothing-remains-but-abstract/)

[Honore de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/)

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