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“Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.”

Has Beens Art Reality Art Is Objectives Abstract Abandoned Realism Principal Abstract Art

Book:Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs

Source: Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs

“Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.”

Has Beens Painting Rejection Abandon Abandoned Mistress

Author:Samuel Morse

“Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.”

Ifs Men Believe Has Beens Would Be Results Powerful Emotion Known Journey Discovery Importance Shame Accomplished Most Powerful Abandoned Ignominy Powerful Emotions

Book:An Instance of the Fingerpost

Source: An Instance of the Fingerpost

“The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.”

Has Beens Ideas Lasts Political Language Party Abandon Abandoned Elsewhere Vulgar Political Parties

Book:Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville

Source: Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville

“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies”

Has Beens Mother Suffering Father My Own Party Solitude Sick Bitter Servant Chairs Abandoned Tied Agony Amused Perishing

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer