"Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has……" — Eric Maisel
"Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else."
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100 Quotes by Eric Maisel
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To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of…
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Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love…
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Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers…
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Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.
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Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt…
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Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state.
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Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.
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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
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If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect…
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An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
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The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest…
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Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real…
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More Abstract Quotes
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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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
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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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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