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We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

~Andy Warhol

Topics: Abstract Age Art Commercial Daily Even Expressionism Form Great Human Landscape Live Subjects Traditional Traditions

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I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's so abstract... isn't it abstract? What are these people sitting here watching?

~Andy Warhol

Topics: Abstract Believe Get Get Together Here Just Many Movies People Restaurants Should Sit Sitting So Many People Think Together Watching I Think

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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

~Ann Brashares

Topics: Abstract Beginning Characters Developing How In The Beginning Move Move On Strange Strange Thing Thing Wonder I Wonder

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Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones.

~Ann Leckie

Topics: About Abstract Adventure Assemble Assumed Bits Bits And Pieces Build Fiction Fictional Future Idea Just Nothing Often Our Out Particular Philosophical Pieces Real Real World Science Science Fiction Some Technological The Real World Use World Worlds Writers

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I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected to feeling. If we don't believe it somehow viscerally, we don't really take it in.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Abstract Before Believe Concept Connected Feeling Issue Mean Moral Moral Issue Really Said Somehow Strongly Take

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I had never thought that I would be involved in narrative structures. As a young guy, I was more interested in abstract modeling. But as I got older, I began to see that there was no reason to limit myself to any intellectual or conceptual postulate, when in fact I'm a professional student of music.

~Anthony Braxton

Topics: Abstract Any Began Conceptual Fact Got Guy Had In Fact Intellectual Interested Involved Limit Modeling More Music Myself Narrative Never No Reason Older Professional Reason See Structures Student Thought Would Young Young Guy

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If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

~Arne Glimcher

Topics: Abstract Andy Andy Warhol Changed Context Expression Hamburgers Hard Ice-Cream Icons Imagery Ordinary Pop Power Process Reached Reproduction Roy Sculpture Soft Sublime Transformation Transformative Turned Warhol

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As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

~Arne Glimcher

Topics: Abstract America Art Art World Artists Beginning Center Diminishing Dominance Emergence Enlarging European Paris Result Scene War World World War World War Ii

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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

Topics: Abstract Capable Concrete Enjoying Happiness He Himself Human Longer Money Then Utterly Who

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We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

~Arto Lindsay

Topics: Abstract African Asian Brazilian Deliberately Elements Hear Music Now People Then Used

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