Famous quotes containing the words full and/or abstraction:
“When the finishing stroke was put to his work, it suddenly expanded before the eyes of the astonished artist into the fairest of all the creations of Brahma. He had made a new system in making a staff, a world with full and fair proportions; in which, though the old cities and dynasties had passed away, fairer and more glorious ones had taken their places.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When truth is nothing but the truth, its unnatural, its an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth. Thats why art moves youprecisely because its unadulterated with all the irrelevancies of real life.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
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