Abstraction Quotes

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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. — Josef Albers
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. — Sarah Caldwell
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. — Deepak Chopra
Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of… — Leo Buscaglia
The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until… — Evelyn Underhill
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society,"… — Emma Goldman
The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty. — Piet Mondrian
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a… — George Boole
It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt… — Alexander Hamilton
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a… — E. H. Moore
The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are… — Fritz Haber
Abstraction is an esoteric language. — Eric Fischl
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader… — George R. R. Martin
The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction… — Melvin Schwartz
All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and… — Charles Baudelaire
God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.… — Thomas Merton
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini. — Swami Vivekananda

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