"Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction.……" — Paul Gauguin

More Abstraction Quotes

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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
• Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,… — Leo Buscaglia
• The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of… — Evelyn Underhill
• 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
• Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal… — George Boole
• It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a… — Alexander Hamilton

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