There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction... — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can… — Michael Baden Copy Share Image
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most… — Doug Henwood 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
Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Oh, talk as we may of beauty as a thing to be chiselled from marble or wrought out on canvas, speculate as… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg 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
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
“I’m allergic to abstraction. Especially in my first two books, I was telling the story of the transformation of urban America, especially… — Carlo Rotella Copy Share Image
“It must be this overarching commitment to what is really an abstraction, to one's children right or wrong, that can be even… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought,… — J. Allan Hobson Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
Abstraction and representation are supposed to be going down two very different paths, one sociological and the other aesthetic. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and… — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
When you're doing a film, narrative is your most important tool, but it's a tool to create a cinematographic experience, to create… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
“Sabism is deabstraction, metacolorism, thematism, exotic, convalescent substrate, soft act, collectivism, pluralization, sensationalism, pluralart, thematic colourism, reabstraction.” — Lepota L. Cosmo 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
![“When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo. But you go back and read their prose and it's sort of perfumed and very ornate and show-offy. And they're constantly striving for these abstractions that seem…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c9/jeffrey-rosen-13180_abstraction_when-i-was-in-law-school-i-was-taught-th_1879201.jpg)
![“You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity .” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f06/catherine-camus-12238_abstraction_you-end-up-beating-your-head-against-a-w_1547558.jpg)
