Abstraction Quotes

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In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition… — Tony Hoare
If you have a large number of unrelated ideas, you have to get quite a distance away from them to get a view of all… — John G. Kemeny
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his… — Diego Rivera
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it — Alexander Stepanov
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges… — Dan Meyer
An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea. — Isabel Paterson
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent… — Javier Perez de Cuellar
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. — William Blake
Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined… — Novalis
The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction. — Samora Machel
In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it. — Max Beckmann
Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for… — Jonah Goldberg
All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth. — Milford Zornes
In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is… — Fritjof Capra
I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in… — Mary Ellen Mark
Can one have love? If we could, love would need to be a thing, a substance that one can have, own, possess. The truth is,… — Erich Fromm
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not… — Isaac Asimov
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation. — Paul Gauguin
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. — Evangelista Torricelli
To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as… — Ernst Mach

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