Abstraction Quotes · Page 7

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

— Kerry James Marshall

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

— Antony Tudor

“She began to learn that nothing is dead, that there cannot be a physical abstraction, that nothing exists for the sake of…

— George MacDonald

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

— Giorgio Armani

“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.”

— David Shenk

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we…

— Gerhard Richter

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

— Anne Carson

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more…

— Paul Gauguin

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I…

— Mary Ellen Mark

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction,…

— Irving Howe

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when…

— David Small

I think that in making a genre movie, you have a really great opportunity to use abstraction to allow the audience to…

— Miles Robbins

For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we…

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image,…

— Diane Glancy

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely…

— Alexander Calder

“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

If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a…

— John G. Kemeny

I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding…Basketball comes close, but it's a team…

— David Foster Wallace

When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is…

— William Hazlitt

Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves…

— Robert Genn

Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction.…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Tests are your record of the interface of every abstraction and as such they are the wall at your back.”

— Anonymous

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

— Marianne Williamson

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

— Frederick Lenz

“What does his Reality or Truth imply? Do they denote or connote anything? Mere name! mere abstraction!”

— Kaiten Nukariya

Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is…

— Andrew Solomon

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

— Alvin Ailey

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is…

— Marsden Hartley

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

— James Nachtwey

Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.

— Helen Lynd

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across…

— Terence McKenna

Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

— Paul Cezanne

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

— Annie E. Clark

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

— Aldous Huxley