"She really was pretty, for a grown-up person,……" — Neil Gaiman
"She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did."
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Neil Gaiman
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
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