I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted.… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The appearance is the allusion of abstraction when in fact I am in control of every aspect of that symmetry. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of… — H. Ned Seelye Copy Share Image
“Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations… — Satyajit Das Copy Share Image
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“If our ideas and beliefs are held with an awareness of abstracting, they can be changed if found to be inadequate or… — S.I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'.… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin 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
For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it — Alexander Stepanov Copy Share Image
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Consumers cannot think in abstractions. They cannot envision a new concept. They cannot predict their behavior. They can only compare against their… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
