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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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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

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

— Robert Smithson

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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

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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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

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Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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

— Dennis Prager

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