Top Abstract Quotes
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
George Ripley
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian Freud
James G. Frazer 
Salvador Dali 
Marc Bloch 
Teresa Wright 
David Cronenberg 
Wyndham Lewis 
Robert Smithson 
Douglas Trumbull 
Jim Hodges 
Jackson Pollock 
Albert Einstein 
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We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
George Ripley 
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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key
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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian Freud
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Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
Jim Hodges
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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
Denis Diderot
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Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.
James G. Frazer
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
E. T. Bell
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