{"quotes":[{"text":"Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.","author":"Wassily Kandinsky","tags":["abstraction","art","paintings","science"],"id":31469,"author_id":"Wassily+Kandinsky"},{"text":"I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["abstract","abstraction","fear","fear-of-truth","god","truth"],"id":39820,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["abstraction","language","metaphor","myths","representation","truth"],"id":53820,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.","author":"Piet Mondrian","tags":["abstraction","art","essence","truth"],"id":55014,"author_id":"Piet+Mondrian"},{"text":"All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.","author":"Paul Karl Feyerabend","tags":["abstraction","goodness","religion"],"id":60476,"author_id":"Paul+Karl+Feyerabend"},{"text":"I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory imaginings, I forgot that I was a pursued man; I felt myself, for an indefinite while, the abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day did their work in me; so did the gently downward road, which forestalled all possibility of weariness. The evening was near, yet infinite.","author":"Jorge Luis Borges","tags":["abstraction","contemplation","imagination","labyrinth"],"id":74672,"author_id":"Jorge+Luis+Borges"},{"text":"Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment' - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns \u0026 Money.","author":"Satyajit Das","tags":["abstraction","finance","modeling","modelling"],"id":121765,"author_id":"Satyajit+Das"},{"text":"I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses and discarded photographs of women. Gradually, her work became more abstract, and in her last exhibition, her paintings were splashes of rebellious color, like the two in my living room, dark patches with little droplets of blue. I asked about her progress from modern realism to abstraction. Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.","author":"Azar Nafisi","tags":["abstraction","art","dreams","reality"],"id":125372,"author_id":"Azar+Nafisi"},{"text":"Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.","author":"Ernest Hemingway","tags":["abstraction","courage","glory","honor"],"id":152890,"author_id":"Ernest+Hemingway"},{"text":"She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["abstraction","beauty","child","child-s-mind","grown-up","grown-ups","imperative","ursula-monkton"],"id":166442,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}