"A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped……" — Aldous Huxley

"A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong."

— Aldous Huxley

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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. — Josef Albers
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor… — Emma Goldman
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe
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