Abstraction Quotes

249 Abstraction quotes by 201 unique authors

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body. — Antony Tudor
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an… — Jean Baudrillard
If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our… — Michael O'Brien
Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home. — Brendan Myers
In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I… — F. Sionil Jose
When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails. — Philipp Meyer
A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction. — Jane Velez-Mitchell
Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a… — Jane Goodall
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it,… — Claes Oldenburg
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily. — Joel Sternfeld
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the… — Kate Bernheimer
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. — Nat Friedman
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this… — Jean Piaget
On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the… — Jean Piaget
War is an abstraction. — Bruce Jackson
At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time… — Unknown Author
Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the… — Chuck Hagel
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. With… — Abraham Maslow
Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion — John Kenneth Galbraith
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic.… — Felix Adler
Only relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation. — Pacifiersucker
Levelling at its maximum is like the stillness of death, where one can hear one's own heartbeat, a stillness like death, into which nothing can… — Unknown Author
India is an abstraction.... India is no more a political personality than Europe. India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation… — Winston Churchill
The premises from which we begin are not arbitrary ones, not dogmas, but real premises from which abstraction can only be made in the imagination.… — Melchor Lim

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