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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
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We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.
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Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought for a while that it was going to be the major movement. But people always drift back to realism. I guess there is a certain security in that.
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The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.
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No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored ...
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To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.
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And just what is Antoine Roquentin? An abstraction. A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness. Antoine Roquentin . . . and suddenly the "I" pales, pales, and fades out. Lucid,
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When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.
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LOVE is one kind of abstraction ...
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I don't abstract from anything. ... I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.
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The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
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If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
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The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.
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Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.
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Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.
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I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.
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The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.
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Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.
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My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes
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Abstract ideas are connected in a systematic way to more concrete experiences.
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I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
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I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-figurative while I am still interested in the modern magic of space, primitive sex forms, the sensual and erotic, disconcerting contours, the things of life.
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An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.
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abstract himself out of the moment
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Life is an abstract.
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All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting.
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Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not in his mind undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.
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Nothing is more abstract than reality.
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
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Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.
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Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.
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The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.
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All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.
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Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.
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Art is only abstract when you look the other way.
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How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.
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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
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Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.
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Abstraction, n.
Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.
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I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?
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I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.
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Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.
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Literalists of the imagination
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
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Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
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I don't know which is finally sicker
specifics or engulfing abstractions.
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War is an abstraction.
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I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.
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I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.
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Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.
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Abstract design is all right - for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human.
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All good art is abstract.
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.
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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
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If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
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What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.
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They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
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For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.
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The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.
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All good art is abstract in its structure.
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I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with ... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.
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Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.
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Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.
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Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
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A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.
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What is the colour of abstraction? What is the smell of hope?
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All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.
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Human intellect is incurably abstract.
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The computer programmer creates the only path available to the computer user; the effect of his decisions on others is masked by their abstraction.
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The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with 'vague' and 'unreal,' and 'inwardness' with a sort of traditional beatitude ... The conception of the word 'plastic' has also been limited by individual interpretations.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.
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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.
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But it is a pipe."
"No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.
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I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.
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I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.
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Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn't need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn't need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.
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Design is a human ritual of understanding.
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Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.
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When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and this canvas. I think there has to be a third thing; it has to be a trialogue.
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Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.
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I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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All great art is abstract.
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Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.
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We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition ...
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Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times' ... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.