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To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

~David Lynch

Topics: Abstract Abstraction Both Concrete Hold Me Really Said Story Things Well Words

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Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

~David Small

Topics: Abstraction Anatomy Art Been Color Curriculum Design Drawing Favor Had Like Minimalism Much Out Pretty Studying Things

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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

~Deepak Chopra

Topics: Abstraction Constantly Creativity Direction Evolutionary Higher Impulses Meaning Moving Universe

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Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.

~Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Topics: Abstraction Attributes Away Begin Deal Developing Easy Life Lives Move Our Our Lives Practicing Proclaim Real Real Life Task Test

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I'm drawn to silhouettes because of their emblematic rather than their illustrational quality. I see them as shapes, allowing an image to become an abstraction and for pure painting to take place.

~Donald Baechler

Topics: Abstraction Allowing Because Become Drawn Image Painting Place Pure Quality Rather See Shapes Take Than Them I See

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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

Topics: Abstraction Destroy Himself Interests Other Person Picture Some Terrible Truth

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Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Abstraction City Washington

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I'm a Libra. I'm happy to be an air sign, but I do think I have a little too much air in my chart as a whole - some more water would be useful, especially in my personal life, as an emotional counterweight to all that abstraction.

~Eleanor Catton

Topics: Abstraction Air Chart Emotional Happy Life Little More Much Personal Personal Life Sign Some Think Too Too Much Useful Water Whole Would

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Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Abstraction Adult After Book Calling Discarded Get Help Important Only Reader Right Should Useless Young Young Adult

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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?

~Evangelista Torricelli

Topics: Abstraction Balance Beyond Carry Confines Considering Distance Figures Freely Hanging Imagined Infinite Intellect Me Means Out Prevent Privilege Special Then Who Wish World Would

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