By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
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
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.” — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a… — Jeffrey Deitch 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
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. — Evangelista Torricelli Copy Share Image
My job is to return abstraction to the people: in a sense, to popularize it without lowering the bar, which is a… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated. — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In learning, we draw an abstraction from concrete objects and events. In creating, we make our own concrete objects and events out… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the notion of looking at a group of “somethings” (such as cars, invoices, or executing computer programs) and realizing that… — Peter van der Linden Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness… For physics is not about the real world, it is… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no… — William James Copy Share Image
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess.… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.” — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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