#abstract

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. ↗

— Josef Albers

#more #nature #probably #real #than

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ↗

— Al Capp

#abstract #abstract art #bewildered #product #sold

Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them. ↗

— David Cronenberg

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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. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. ↗

— Nat Friedman

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It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#destroy #himself #interests #other #person