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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

- John Keats Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.

- Jane Addams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I paint abstract expressions.

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People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

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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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Abstract art A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

- G. C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Two elements are needed to form a truth -- a fact and an abstraction.

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A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

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Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

- Mohandas Gandhi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.

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How badly I want that nameless thing First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.

- Emily Carr Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Since multinational giants couldn't have little pictures of red barns or weeping clowns in the lobbies of their Bauhaus buildings, Abstract Expressionism emerged as the world's most overrated form of interior decoration.

- Brad Holland Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Constantin Brancusi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

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Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

- Noah Webster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It abstract art should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed - after a while you may like it or you may not.

- Jackson Pollock Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

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The term ideal, herein is not used in the sense of an abstract, unattainable perfection but rather it means a worthy goal that has promise of attainment through appropriate efforts. The gap between where you are and where you desire to be creates a mental and emotional conflict, 'a holy discontent' often called stress in today's world. Normally the first response to stress is to mentally and emotionally run over the outward indications of the conflict anger, fear, disappointment, resentment, embarrassment, or other such negative feelings. In doing this one's mind is trying to fill the gap between his expectation of what he desires and what actually exists.

- Loyd J. Ericson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

- Berthold Auerbach Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

- Dalai Lama Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Mahler's first symphony is not a typical symphony in that it's not abstract music it does conjure up images of nature and images of heroism.

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A painting... is just one image. It allows you to elaborate, dwell on that one picture, go off on it because no further images are forced upon you. But the motion picture is always changing. So what you have to do is create some kind of eye field, an abstract form in a literal sense that tries to emulate what the brain is perceiving, not what the eye is seeing.

- John Leslie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The courses I took were very rigorous and demanding, teaching me how to draw from real life. I started to get bored with that mode of expression as I found it to be too repetitive. I was looking to push myself to do something different and abstract art seemed to be the perfect outlet for that.

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