Abstraction Quotes

249 Abstraction quotes by 201 unique authors

To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her… — Thomas Hardy
She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would… — Neil Gaiman
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier. History… — Stephen Fry
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient… — Peter Kreeft
Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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

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