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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the...

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Quote by Albert Camus about art, magic

Abstract rules, which establish in advance what we may...

Abstract rules, which establish in advance what we may expect of one another, make cooperation possible on a wide scale.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about rules

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem, it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about faith, essential, use

How many people make themselves abstract to appear...

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about nation, people

Divinitiy is the abstract and impersonal state of God.

Divinitiy is the abstract and impersonal state of God.

Quote by Emil Cioran about god, state

To use computers for studing concrete matters, man has to...

To use computers for studing concrete matters, man has to learn to think accurate and abstract.

Quote by Grigore Moisil about computers, use, man

Rap is far from an abstract, dematerialized mode of utterance. I hate a lot of rap because it's bad stuff, but it does emphasize the articulatory aspect of the words.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about hate, bad luck, bad

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but...

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

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about politics, thinking, nothing

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change, and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Quote by Camille Paglia about history, greatness, force, beauty, order, change, man

Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that...

Rather, classical liberals and libertarians argue that the system of justice should abstract from the concrete characteristics of individuals.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about liberty, justice

Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative, and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.

Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, experience, human imperfections

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Quote by Walter Pater about writers, poetry, beauty, art, magic

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.

Quote by Walter Pater about objects, literary critic, beauty, power, being

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's...

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Quote by Paul Engle about poetry, sadness, heads, poets

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