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
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
Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
Jim Hodges
Jean-Paul Sartre 
Auberon Herbert 
Henry A. Kissinger 
Barbara Hepworth 
Jim Hodges 
Gustave Moreau All Abstract Quotes
You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.
Jim Henson 
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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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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp
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