Abstraction Quotes

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Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks… — Stephen Jay Gould
No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers. — Alfred North Whitehead
Every work of art is an abstraction from time; it denies the reality of change and decay and death. — Lewis Mumford
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor. — Igor Stravinsky
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here… — Richard Leakey
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions… — Irving Howe
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In… — Keith Devlin
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days...… — Alfred North Whitehead
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction. — Julie Mehretu
When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel… — Gerhard Richter
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful,… — Gerhard Richter
I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never… — Gerhard Richter
Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most effective use of… — Tom Coughlin
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free. — John Bruton
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that… — Daniel Clowes
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum. — Jeffrey Deitch
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these… — Caio Fonseca
It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers. Kill one today! — John Carmack
This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies… — Herbert Marcuse
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image.… — Ezra Pound

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