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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Newt Gingrich 
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Oliver Wendell Holmes 
Jean-Paul Sartre 
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
Don DeLillo 
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It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.
Douglas Trumbull
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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
Julie Taymor
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
Barbara Hepworth
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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
Paul Ricoeur
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The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.
Theodor Svedberg
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Auguste Comte
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Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.
David Hockney
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