"To abstract is to draw out the essence……" — Ben Shahn

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• To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac
• I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
• In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno
• None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
• Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some… — Nicolas Cage
• Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still… — Nicolas Cage
• I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. — Eric Cantona
• Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp
• Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change… — Saul Alinsky
• 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would… — Sam Abell
• Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply… — John Dewey
• It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without… — Giorgio Armani

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