Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction. — Max Roach Copy Share Image
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me... to carry meaning. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
“The intension of an analytic concept arises from the abstraction of the common qualities of a group of things.” — John William Davis Copy Share Image
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of… — Lorraine Hansberry 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
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.” — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which… — Melvin Schwartz Copy Share Image
The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements… — Theodor Svedberg Copy Share Image
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism -… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
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
The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
“Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Abstraction automatically gives rise to optimized solutions within the universal set of all possible solutions, as has been shown in this book.… — Subhajit Ganguly Copy Share Image
Any person of any philosophic persuasion who sits on a hot stove will verify without any intellectual argument whatsoever that he is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“It is not feasible for most of us to abandon the Internet entirely. But at the very least we can impose on… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.” — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont 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
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
