Our lives don't make sense in abstraction, only when compared with the lives of others. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered. — Melissa Brown Copy Share Image
The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction. — Sidney Coleman Copy Share Image
We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“You cannot devote your life to an abstraction. Indeed, life shatters all abstractions in one way or another, including words such as… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Abstraction has always been around, since the drawings in the caves. It exists in all cultures all over the world. I thought… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The symbol is not a mere formality; it is the very essence of algebra. Without the symbol the object is a human… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“For the Angelic Doctor, the reason of conceptual knowledge is just the contrary! It is not his distance from the animal that… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“Similarities are read into nature by our nervous system, and so are structurally less fundamental than differences. Less fundamental, but no less… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries.… — Fritz Haber Copy Share Image
“The principle of conservation of boson number inside a system is seen to follow directly from the Abstraction Model. The IBMs are… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“We can never dispense with language and the other symbol systems; for it is by means of them, and only by their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Intellectualization complicates truth as it abstracts from what is.” — Omar Delawar Copy Share Image
