Paul Gauguin Quotes
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
Paul Gauguin
Quotes to Explore
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I've had singing lessons and plan to show off.
Geri Halliwell
Spice Girls
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All realities, all dimensions are open to me!
Prince
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I may have spent the morning tracking down a lunatic thanks to a holographic image of my dad, hallucinated, and wound up in a potential terrorist’s office where I had a super weird conversation, but at least pastizzi are normal.
Beth Revis
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Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it. If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
Elizabeth Lesser
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When many different voices send you in different directions, you can't listen to your own.
Ray Stevenson
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Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.
Carroll Quigley
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The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
Samora Machel
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If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
Antony Tudor
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The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.
Berkeley Breathed
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I do not think it possible to convey the moral energy that went into this division between abstraction and realism, from both sides, in those years. It had an almost theological intensity, and in another stage of civilization there would certainly have been burnings at stake.
Arthur Danto
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For me, abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I'll go further and say that abstraction is nearer my heart. I prefer to see with closed eyes.
Josef Albers
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I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?
Cecily Brown
