Abstraction Quotes · Page 5

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

— Wassily Kandinsky

Philosophy does not exist. It is nothing but an hypostatized abstraction.

— R. D. Laing

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead…

— Jacob Epstein

Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death.

— Lewis Mumford

I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

— Alexander Stepanov

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

— Joel Sternfeld

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

— David Longstreth

I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions.

— Terry Tempest Williams

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being…

— William Hazlitt

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only…

— Franz Grillparzer

The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a…

— Sufjan Stevens

If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an…

— Rebecca Solnit

The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in…

— Keith Devlin

[Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's…

— Catherine Camus

“the value of a game is in abstraction. Many Nirai go in for simulationist approaches, a tendency you share, but sometimes you…

— Yoon Ha Lee

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its…

— Barbara Hepworth

The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal…

— Philip Pearlstein

The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“It is not feasible for most of us to abandon the Internet entirely. But at the very least we can impose on…

— Rod Dreher

“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of…

— Jean Baudrillard

“Abstraction automatically gives rise to optimized solutions within the universal set of all possible solutions, as has been shown in this book.…

— Subhajit Ganguly

Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre.…

— Philip K. Dick

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The…

— Wendell Berry

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

— John Bruton

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on…

— Marquis de Sade

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of…

— Lorraine Hansberry

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

— Auguste Comte

“The intension of an analytic concept arises from the abstraction of the common qualities of a group of things.”

— John William Davis

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.

— Gottfried Leibniz

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

— Sarah Caldwell

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

— Kerry James Marshall

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind,…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

— Orville Prescott

“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.”

— Robert C. Martin

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

— Henri Matisse

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor…

— Alfred North Whitehead