Abstraction Quotes

Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

We have tried to fit man into abstraction, but he does not fit.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today!

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself

The effective exploitation of his powers of abstraction must be regarded as one of the most vital activities of a competent programmer.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.

It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry.