Abstraction Quotes

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I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play… — Rem Koolhaas
Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might doâ€”itâ€™s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience. — William Eggleston
The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction. — Auguste Comte
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value. — George Bernard Shaw
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable — Derek R. Audette
When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. — Aldous Huxley
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but… — William Hazlitt
It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a… — Isaac D'Israeli
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more abstraction, I have… — Henri Matisse
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. — Henri Matisse
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified… — Georgia O'Keeffe
By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction. — Umberto Eco
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction... — Abraham Maslow
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion,… — Camille Paglia
Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality. — Wassily Kandinsky
I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and… — Emily Carr
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by… — Clement Greenberg
I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with… — Michael Baden
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them… — William Melmoth

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