Abstraction Quote by Brice Marden

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

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

— Stephen Dunn

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

— Jerry Saltz

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

— Jerry Saltz

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

I'm not an abstractionist completely.

— Cy Twombly

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 an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

— Derek R. Audette

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

— Marshall Ganz

If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe, the mystery…

— Tao Lin

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

— Henry Moore

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

— Josef Albers