It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions. — Paul Klee 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
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
I think we are living a life without specificity, and then our lives become abstractions. — Terry Tempest Williams 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
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
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
“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
You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has… — Mark Rothko 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
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
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
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is… — Caio Fonseca 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
“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
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
“In his book Software Abstractions, MIT Professor Daniel Jackson explains just how important it is to choose the right abstractions. "Pick the… — Edmond Lau 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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them. — William James 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
There's nothing like necessity of needing to do something to cause you to come up with abstractions that help you break through… — Jeff Dean Copy Share Image
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging… — F. Sionil Jose 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
