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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Topics: Abstract Cannot Developed India Lifeline Nation Transform Vision

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I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

~Aaron Huey

Topics: Abstract Between Expressionism Painter Pop Somewhere Wanted

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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

~Aaron Sorkin

Topics: Able Abstract Alone Being Boat Certain Elicit Emotion Express Freedom Idea Jackson Latitude Man More Painting Paintings Photograph Sea Value

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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Abstract Derived Itself Mathematics More Operations Own Science Truth Value

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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.

~Ada Lovelace

Topics: Abstract Analytical Bear Engine Everyday Feel Human Interests Involving May Ordinary Peculiar Perhaps Powers Questions Rather Science Speculative Strictly Than Those Utilitarian Very Views Who

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I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

~Adolph Gottlieb

Topics: Abstract Nature Never Paint Point Starting Starting Point Think Use

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

~Al Capp

Topics: Abstract Abstract Art Art Bewildered Product Sold Utterly

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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

~Alexander Herzen

Topics: Abstract Contemplation General Just Monks Our Prayer Regions Spirit Wasted Wither World

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The two have to go hand in hand - the atmosphere and the music. I actually get rather worried if I can't see the music first. There always needs to be a mood, a feeling, a story, even if it is abstract. There's got to be a narrative to guide things before they're even created.

~Alison Goldfrapp

Topics: Abstract Actually Always Atmosphere Before Created Even Feeling First Get Go Got Guide Hand Mood Music Narrative Needs Rather See Story Things Two Worried

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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.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: About Abstract Always Artists Certain Certain Way Details Heads Live Musicians Obsessed People Physical Physical World Scientists Set Very Way Who World Write Written I Write

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