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
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Henry A. Kissinger 
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
Theodor Adorno
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
Kenneth L. Pike
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The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
James J. Gibson
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Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
David Ogilvy
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Theodor Adorno
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Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
Max Beckmann
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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Albert Camus
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