Abstraction Quotes

249 quotes by 205 authors

The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form… — Beauford Delaney
A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression.… — William Powell
We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant… — Hans Arp
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body… — Jane Smiley
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from… — Max Bill
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its… — Piet Mondrian
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality. — Piet Mondrian
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a… — Roland Barthes
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to health care, you have realize what that implies. It's not an abstraction. I'm… — Rand Paul
Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength,… — Jack Donovan
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction. — Jack Donovan
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet,… — Nadine Gordimer
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are… — Robert W. Floyd
Suddenly absurdism wasnâ€™t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort â€”… — George Saunders
Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only… — Giorgio de Chirico
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction — Remy de Gourmont
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to… — Flannery O'Connor
The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it… — Nicole Krauss
To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality. — Pablo Picasso

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