Abstract Quotes

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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have… — Paul Ricoeur
Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life. — Cassius Jackson Keyser
Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical… — Bertrand Russell
Like a stool which needs three legs to be stable, mathematics education needs three components: good problems, with many of them being multi-step ones, a… — Richard Askey
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part of our job… — James Key
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything… — Alexander Masters
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. — Theo van Doesburg
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. — William Irwin Thompson
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and… — Robert Genn
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how… — Terry Eagleton
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need.… — Robert Motherwell
Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades...It springs newborn out of a boredom with the finality and over-saturation of Abstract-Expressionism, which,… — Robert Indiana
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of… — Arthur Honegger
The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. — Arthur Eddington
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. — Berthold Auerbach
You cannot be present in an abstract way. Presence is not about disappearing into nothingness. You can only be present with something that is actually… — Leonard Jacobson
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure… — Hans Hofmann
Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape… — Herb Ritts
There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and… — Sergei Lukyanenko
At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting… — William Cronon

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