Abstraction Quotes

249 Abstraction quotes by 201 unique authors

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if… — William Manchester
I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco… — Wynton Marsalis
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and… — Terence McKenna
An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch… — Marshall McLuhan
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about… — Toni Morrison
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty,… — Camille Paglia
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. — Jean Piaget
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. — Robert M. Pirsig
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one… — Ayn Rand
Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions. — Richard Russo
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
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed… — Jerry Saltz
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights… — Jerry Saltz
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought. — Robert Smithson
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction. — Dylan Thomas
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. — Wallace Stevens
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge… — C.S. Lewis
...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though… — Bret Easton Ellis

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