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title: "Best Abstract Thoughts"
description: "Browse 1,403 Abstract quotes by 1,054 authors. Discover the best Abstract sayings and thoughts."
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> [I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-lucas/i-wanted-to-make-abstract-films-that-are-emotional-and-i-still-do/)

[George Lucas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-lucas/)

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> [Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pablo-picasso/whatever-is-most-abstract-may-perhaps-be-the-summit-of-reality/)

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

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> [I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gustave-moreau/i-am-dominated-by-one-thing-an-irresistible-burning-attraction-2/)

[Gustave Moreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gustave-moreau/)

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> [Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/our-impartiality-is-kept-for-abstract-merit-and-demerit-which-none-of/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/berthold-auerbach/judaism-lives-not-in-an-abstract-creed-but-in-its-institutions/)

[Berthold Auerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/berthold-auerbach/)

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> [fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/fashion-seems-to-exist-for-an-abstract-person-who-is-not-you-or-me/)

[Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/)

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> [With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-tour-chayes/with-a-metric-you-can-really-go-to-town-otherwise-it-is-just-abstract/)

[Jennifer Tour Chayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-tour-chayes/)

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> [I like the fact that music is more abstract.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bryan-ferry/i-like-the-fact-that-music-is-more-abstract/)

[Bryan Ferry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bryan-ferry/)

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> [But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dominique-de-menil/but-nobody-is-visually-naive-any-longer-we-are-cluttered-with-images/)

[Dominique de Menil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dominique-de-menil/)

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> [Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morris-kline/psychologically-the-teaching-of-abstractions-first-is-wrong-indeed-a/)

[Morris Kline](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morris-kline/)

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> [I have tried to integrate the spirituality into the training in a way that meets my need not to destroy the beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-b-rosenberg/i-have-tried-to-integrate-the-spirituality-into-the-training-in-a-way/)

[Marshall B. Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-b-rosenberg/)

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> [Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-henson/music-is-an-essential-part-of-everything-we-do-like-puppetry-music/)

[Jim Henson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-henson/)

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> [Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-luc-godard/even-with-painting-even-abstract-paintings-you-need-the-incoming-of/)

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

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> [All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hockney/all-painting-no-matter-what-you-are-painting-is-abstract-in-that-it-s/)

[David Hockney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hockney/)

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> [Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/wrong-dressed-out-in-pride-pomp-and-circumstance-has-more-attraction/)

[William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/)

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> [The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-spirit-of-an-age-may-be-best-expressed-in-the-abstract-ideal-arts/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-nicholson/the-kind-of-painting-which-i-find-exciting-is-not-necessarily/)

[Ben Nicholson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-nicholson/)

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> [Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-indiana/those-damned-abstract-expressionists-they-were-a-major-problem/)

[Robert Indiana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-indiana/)

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> [Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/liberty-is-not-just-an-idea-an-abstract-principle-it-is-power/)

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

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> [When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-guston/when-i-see-people-making-abstract-painting-i-think-it-s-just-a/)

[Philip Guston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-guston/)

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> [One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling/one-is-almost-tempted-to-say-that-the-language-itself-is-a-mythology/)

[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-wilhelm-joseph-schelling/)

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> [In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ada-lovelace/in-enabling-mechanism-to-combine-together-general-symbols-in/)

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

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> [Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-martin/beauty-and-happiness-and-life-are-all-the-same-and-they-are-pervasive/)

[Agnes Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-martin/)

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> [The easiest way for me to tell someone what I do is to say that I'm a non-musician who practises and produces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oneohtrix-point-never/the-easiest-way-for-me-to-tell-someone-what-i-do-is-to-say-that-i-m-a/)

[Oneohtrix Point Never](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oneohtrix-point-never/)

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> [Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcel-proust/are-not-the-thoughts-of-the-dying-often-turned-towards-the-practical/)

[Marcel Proust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcel-proust/)

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> [An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-updike/an-old-essay-by-john-updike-begins-we-live-in-an-era-of-gratuitous/)

[John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-updike/)

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> [It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madame-de-stael/it-is-obvious-that-the-most-despotic-forms-of-social-organization/)

[Madame de Stael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madame-de-stael/)

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> [In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-pierce/in-an-odd-way-i-thought-i-was-lowering-the-bar-for-myself-in-saying/)

[Jason Pierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-pierce/)

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> [Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-gris/painting-for-me-is-like-a-fabric-all-of-a-piece-and-uniform-with-one/)

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

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> [Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-dantzig/industrial-production-the-flow-of-resources-in-the-economy-the/)

[George Dantzig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-dantzig/)

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> [We do have to learn poetry at school. Poetry is interesting to me, particularly Chinese poetry. It's like an ancient form of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jenova-chen/we-do-have-to-learn-poetry-at-school-poetry-is-interesting-to-me/)

[Jenova Chen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jenova-chen/)

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> [The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-of-finland/the-abstract-especially-in-those-rough-sketches-is-very-important-to/)

[Tom of Finland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-of-finland/)

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> [Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-buchanan/abstract-propositions-should-never-be-discussed-by-a-legislative-body/)

[James Buchanan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-buchanan/)

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> [All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milford-zornes/all-art-is-abstract-because-art-is-an-abstraction-of-the-truth/)

[Milford Zornes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milford-zornes/)

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> [Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-saltz/think-of-an-abstract-painting-as-very-very-low-relief-a-thing-not-a/)

[Jerry Saltz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-saltz/)

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> [Tenderness can be just as abstract as insanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/tenderness-can-be-just-as-abstract-as-insanity/)

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

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> [I wear my pants on my upper torso to be abstract and different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-yorke/i-wear-my-pants-on-my-upper-torso-to-be-abstract-and-different/)

[Thom Yorke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-yorke/)

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> [Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georges-clemenceau/americans-have-no-capacity-for-abstract-thought-and-make-bad-coffee/)

[Georges Clemenceau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georges-clemenceau/)

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> [Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anton-ehrenzweig/abstract-art-has-helped-us-to-experience-the-emotional-power-inherent/)

[Anton Ehrenzweig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anton-ehrenzweig/)

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> [Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-stella/abstract-paintings-must-be-as-real-as-those-created-by-the-16th/)

[Frank Stella](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-stella/)

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                        "text": "Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the \"seamy side\" of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, and which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death?",
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                        "text": "It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.",
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                        "text": "In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But in a way it's kind of harder to make pop music. It's like the more abstract you get with music, you get into that emperor's new clothes thing, where you can go anywhere, and just claim that your audience may not be prepared to go with you. But with pop music, I think everybody understands the form, everybody knows what it's meant to do. So I would say it's harder to write that kind of music.",
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                        "text": "Painting for me is like a fabric, all of a piece and uniform, with one set of threads as the representational, esthetic element, and the cross-threads as the technical, architectural, or abstract element. These threads are interdependent and complementary, and if one set is lacking the fabric does not exist. A picture with no representational purpose is to my mind always an incomplete technical exercise, for the only purpose of any picture is to achieve representation.",
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                        "text": "Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous interrelated activities. Differences may exist in the goals to be achieved, the particular processes involved, and the magnitude of effort. Nevertheless, it is possible to abstract the underlying essential similarities in the management of these seemingly disparate systems.",
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                        "text": "We do have to learn poetry at school. Poetry is interesting to me, particularly Chinese poetry. It's like an ancient form of song. There's five sentences, seven sentences - they're very different from English poetry. Chinese poetry is much more rigorous. You can only use this many words, and they will form some kind of rhythm so people can actually sing it. To me, poetry is quite abstract but also quite beautiful.",
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                        "text": "The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so important. Sometimes those first few lines cut the paper into such satisfying shapes that I don't want to go on, but I always do, adding nostrils and nipples and bootstraps until I have filled the paper up as usual.",
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                        "text": "All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.",
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