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"I understood abstraction as a pure idea, because what is abstract—in the consciousness of a human being and, above all, a Western person—has nothing to do with what is representative. To begin with, it has to be pure structure. Then I began to find other activities that might satisfy my notion of what is abstract. I found this relationship only in mathematics and music. But since I didn’t have the necessary training in the field of science—or five years to devote myself to the study of mathematics—I discerned that, through music, I could find a different way of handling the elements. Elements that answered to the idea I had of abstraction, which was the idea of a different way of deciphering the universe."