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

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

" A lot of my books have started with an abstract premise. "

Colson Whitehead

" Americans tend to endorse the use of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia when the question is abstract and hypothetical. "

Ezekiel Emanuel

" As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. "

" A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things. "

" 'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply of spending cuts. "

John Lanchester

" Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. "

" 'Bond girl' is a bit abstract, what does that mean, you see a girl in a bikini? "

Berenice Marlohe

" But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. "

" Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism. "

" Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments. "

Jean-Luc Godard

" Climate change is a really abstract thing in most of the world. "

" Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality. "

" Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. "

" Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. "

" 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

" Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" Film is abstract, not definite. It is a dream. "

Jacques Audiard

" Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless. "

Stacey D'Erasmo

" History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. "

Robert Smithson

" How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. "

" I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot. "

Pamela Druckerman

" I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task. "

Dmitry Medvedev

" I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. "

" I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn't find exactly that. "

Richard Greenberg

" I create art. It's kinda abstract. "

" Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars. "

" I do not see scales as abstract. "

" I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They think in stories. And the best stories are not abstract; they are concrete. "

Yuval Noah Harari

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