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
Jacques Lacan 
Billy Zane 
David Cronenberg 
Theodor Svedberg 
Henry A. Kissinger 
Hans Hofmann 
Wyndham Lewis 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 
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The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children.
Teresa Wright 
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To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
Teresa de Lauretis
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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
Louis Aragon
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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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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Honore De Balzac
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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
Pierre Schaeffer
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I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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