Abstraction Quotes

War is an abstraction.

— Bruce Jackson

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

— Sigfried Giedion

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

— Paul Cezanne

Abstraction and realism work best together.

— Ken Danby

All art is an abstraction to some degree.

— Henry Moore

I like residing in abstraction.

— Sufjan Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

“LOVE is one kind of abstraction ...”

— David Levithan

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

— Julie Mehretu

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.

— Umberto Eco

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

— Robert Breault

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

— Jeff Koons

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

— Alan Watts

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

— Grady Booch

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

— John Green

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

— Charles Lindbergh

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

— Max Beckmann

I feel most free onstage. The audience, it's an abstraction. You don't really see anyone out there, but you feel the audience…

— Kim Gordon

Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.

— Brendan Myers

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

— John Carmack

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent…

— Jean Baudrillard

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

— Brice Marden

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

— Jose Saramago

In my experience, you either have encapsulation and abstraction or you have neither. There is no middle ground.

— Steve McConnell

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good…

— Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science…

— Bernard Beckett

If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely…

— Wu Guanzhong

“ abstraction , n . Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when…

— David Levithan

My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is…

— Caio Fonseca

A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure…

— Paul Gauguin

I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try…

— Spencer Krug

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I…

— Jerry Saltz

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

Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has…

— David Lynch

In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations…

— David Hilbert

Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within…

— William Hazlitt

“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

In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.…

— Fritjof Capra

The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“Dialectics, Engestrom states, reverses the direction of conventional logic: instead of seeing 'concrete' phenomena as something sensually palpable and 'abstraction' as a…

— Michael F.D. Young