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Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.


Stephen Jay Gould


#abstraction #ages #commitment #continuous #contrary

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.


Henry Flynt


#abstract #avant-garde #expressionism #harvard #i

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.


John Keats


#beauty #blame #critic #effect #him

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.


Douglas Trumbull


#became #been #before #bulk #doing

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.


Walter Pater


#beautiful #beauty #being #certain #correct

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.


Pierre Schaeffer


#classical #classical music #concrete #contrast #expressed

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.


Robert Smithson


#everybody #nobody #nought #zero

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


#artifices #both #everybody #found #history

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.


Joseph Stalin


#antagonism #between #divided #division #exploited

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.


Dennis Prager


#easier #hits #home #position #take






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