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Abstraction Quotes: "A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique."

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.



Abstraction Quotes: "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.




Abstraction Quotes: "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."

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.



Abstraction Quotes: "Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity."

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.




Abstraction Quotes: "I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects."

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.



Abstraction Quotes: "Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates."

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.



Abstraction Quotes: "The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction."

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.




Abstraction Quotes: "The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise."

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.



Abstraction Quotes: "The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction."

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.



Abstraction Quotes: "Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity."

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.



Abstraction Quotes: "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."

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.



Abstraction Quotes: "Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals."

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.




Abstraction Quotes: "Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation."

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.



Abstraction Quotes: "The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty."

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.



Abstraction Quotes: "Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature."

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.



Abstraction Quotes: "Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself."

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.



Abstraction Quotes: "Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction."

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.



Abstraction Quotes: "Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted."

Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.



Abstraction Quotes: "The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction."

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.



Abstraction Quotes: "Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves."

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.



Abstraction Quotes: "It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole."

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.



Abstraction Quotes: "Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion."

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.



Abstraction Quotes: "In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits."

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.



Abstraction Quotes: "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."

Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.



Abstraction Quotes: "As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism."

As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism.



Abstraction Quotes: "Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality."

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.



Abstraction Quotes: "Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave."

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.



Abstraction Quotes: "To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality."

To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality.



Abstraction Quotes: "Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it."

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.



Abstraction Quotes: "I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb."

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.



Abstraction Quotes: "Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation."

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.



Abstraction Quotes: "There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence."

There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have achieved a form that is simplified to its essence.



Abstraction Quotes: "Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes."

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.



Abstraction Quotes: "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."

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.



Abstraction Quotes: "The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not."

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.



Abstraction Quotes: "Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction."

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.



Abstraction Quotes: "Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction."

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.



Abstraction Quotes: "Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments."

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.



Abstraction Quotes: "Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.



Abstraction Quotes: "I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?"

I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?



Abstraction Quotes: "I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton."

I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton.



Abstraction Quotes: "America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history."

America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history.



Abstraction Quotes: "Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction."

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.



Abstraction Quotes: "Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought."

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.



Abstraction Quotes: "Art, indeed, began with abstraction."

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.



Abstraction Quotes: "People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away."

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.



Abstraction Quotes: "Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality."

Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.



Abstraction Quotes: "The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint."

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.



Abstraction Quotes: "In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort."

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.