I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.” — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool. — Lewis Black 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
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
“The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same… — Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems . — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“It's often people whose jobs are abstractions that see a company as a zero-sum game where they have to fight and defend… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
“Those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The dance of capital, the harmony of a balance sheet, and the way these abstractions interact with people, their characters and desires,… — Iain Pears 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
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
“In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. ‘I don’t want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“In our own time, algebra has become the most rarefied and demanding of all mental disciplines, whose objects are abstractions of abstractions… — Anonymous 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
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
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is easier to compare concrete things in a fictional story with concrete things in real life than it is to compare… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. — David Foster Wallace 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
“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to… — William Cecil Dampier Copy Share Image
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them. — William James Copy Share Image
To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
