By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.” — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction. — Hans Werner Henze Copy Share Image
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image,… — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
I don't see those paintings as abstractions, especially because they are emblems of the inkblot. They aren't smashed together; they are constructed… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering… — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
I think that in making a genre movie, you have a really great opportunity to use abstraction to allow the audience to… — Miles Robbins Copy Share Image
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . .… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.” — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
