It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today! — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne 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
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. — Jean Piaget 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
No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love. — Orville Prescott 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
“Sabism is deabstraction, metacolorism, thematism, exotic, convalescent substrate, soft act, collectivism, pluralization, sensationalism, pluralart, thematic colourism, reabstraction.” — Lepota L. Cosmo 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
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
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
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
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
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction,… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when… — David Small 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
“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 Copy Share Image
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events.… — Fritjof Capra 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
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
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
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
“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.” — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Deep Learning is about learning multiple levels of representation and abstraction that help to make sense of data such as images, sound,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.” — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are… — John Bruton Copy Share Image
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams 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 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
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour. — Gottfried Leibniz 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
![“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)
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