Abstraction Quote by Alexander Stepanov

Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.

— Stephen Dunn

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

— Cy Twombly

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

— Pablo Picasso

I don't like the word 'abstractions' very much because most people don't think in abstractions. That is too difficult for them. They think in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a…

— Tom G. Palmer

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion…

— Jacob Epstein

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.

— Eric Maisel

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

— Morris Kline

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

— Jerry Saltz