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• I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

  Jenny Holzer

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  Tags in Painter, Abstract

• When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

  Damien Hirst

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  Tags in Paintings, Abstract

• I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest – things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

  Jonah Hill

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  Tags in Abstract, Funniest

• I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

  Glen Hansard

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  Tags in Leaving, Abstract

• Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief – a thing, not a picture.

  Jerry Saltz

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  Tags in Abstract, Relief

• Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

  Berthold Auerbach

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• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

  Salvador Dalí

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  Tags in Abstract

• The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

  Ellen Key

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Abstract, Horrifying, World, More, Become

• I think we’re much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there’s another purpose to it.

  Roy Lichtenstein

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  Tags in Abstract, People, Think, Everybody, Like, Purpose, Understand

• Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

  Al Capp

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Abstract, Bewildered, Sold, Unprincipled, Untalented, Utterly, Product

• To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

  Honoré de Balzac

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Abstract, Exhausted, Thought

• None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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  Tags in Eternal, Abstract, Peace

• In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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  Tags in Abstract, Responsibility

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Abstract, Realism, Abstraction